A hyper-redundant manipulator for Mobile Manipulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Published in: 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) pp. 974 - 981
• Main Authors: Danko, Todd W., Oh, Paul Y.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2013
• Subjects: End effectors; Jacobian matrices; Joints; Kinematics; Mobile communication

Due to their ability to navigate in 6 degree of freedom space, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can access many locations that are inaccessible to ground vehicles. While mobile manipulation is an extremely active field of research for ground traveling host platforms, UAVs have historically been used...