Title :
Air-arm: A new kind of flying manipulator
Author :
Julio Mendoza-Mendoza;Gabriel Sepulveda-Cervantes;Carlos Aguilar-Ibanez;Mauricio Mendez;Marco Reyes-Larios;Pedro Matabuena;Juan Gonzalez-Avila
Author_Institution :
Centro de Investigacion en Computo del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Av Othon de Mendizabal s/n, Mexico D.F.
Abstract :
We introduce a new kind of aerial manipulator based on multirotors. This device exploits the rarely used yaw movement which characterizes these aircrafts in order to generate and transmit forces and displacements trough a serial-chain of rigid links and other drones, as if the whole system was a flying robot arm with UAVS as rotational joints. Also we provide comparisons with the existing technologies and a condensed review concerning them. Finally, this paper proposes many open problems in order to develop the final system. Due to the scientific and social impact of this new approach, we provide some application examples.
Keywords :
"Kinematics","Couplings","End effectors","Three-dimensional displays","Aircraft"
Conference_Titel :
Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS), 2015 Workshop on
DOI :
10.1109/RED-UAS.2015.7441018