Meng, Jiawei;
Buzzatto, Joao;
Liu, Yuanchang;
Liarokapis, Minas;
(2022)
On Aerial Robots with Grasping and Perching Capabilities: A Comprehensive Review.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
, 8
, Article 739173. 10.3389/frobt.2021.739173.
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Abstract
Over the last decade, there has been an increased interest in developing aerial robotic platforms that exhibit grasping and perching capabilities not only within the research community but also in companies across different industry sectors. Aerial robots range from standard multicopter vehicles/drones, to autonomous helicopters, and fixed-wing or hybrid devices. Such devices rely on a range of different solutions for achieving grasping and perching. These solutions can be classified as: 1) simple gripper systems, 2) arm-gripper systems, 3) tethered gripping mechanisms, 4) reconfigurable robot frames, 5) adhesion solutions, and 6) embedment solutions. Grasping and perching are two crucial capabilities that allow aerial robots to interact with the environment and execute a plethora of complex tasks, facilitating new applications that range from autonomous package delivery and search and rescue to autonomous inspection of dangerous or remote environments. In this review paper, we present the state-of-the-art in aerial grasping and perching mechanisms and we provide a comprehensive comparison of their characteristics. Furthermore, we analyze these mechanisms by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed technologies and we summarize the significant achievements in these two research topics. Finally, we conclude the review by suggesting a series of potential future research directions that we believe that are promising.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | On Aerial Robots with Grasping and Perching Capabilities: A Comprehensive Review |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/frobt.2021.739173 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.739173 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 Meng, Buzzatto, Liu and Liarokapis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | unmanned aerial vehicles, aerial robots, grasping, perching, robotic gripping mechanisms |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145840 |
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