An over-actuated modular platform for aerial inspection and manipulation

This video shows an innovative over-actuated aerial vehicle specifically designed for tasks requiring high maneuverability such as aerial inspection of infrastructure and aerial manipulation. The main feature of the system is the fact that the redundancy of actuators allows to obtain maneuvers otherwise impossible for other aerial systems such helicopters or quadrotors. The experiments proposed in the video demonstrate how this improved maneuverability can be exploited both during free-flight operations or when physical interaction with the environment is required.