Title
Carrying a flexible payload with multiple flying vehicles
Abstract
This paper introduces a method for carrying a flexible payload with multiple attached flying vehicles. A model for a particular class of flexible structures is presented, and an estimator is derived that observes the pose of the structure in space as well as the magnitude of some characteristic deformation modes. A control strategy that controls the flexible payload to a desired pose while also controlling the deformations to zero is introduced. The presented methods are validated in the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena by flying with a thin, flexible ring that is carried by six quadrocopters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IROS.2013.6696850
IROS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple attached flying vehicles,thin flexible ring,multi-robot systems,helicopters,autonomous aerial vehicles,flexible payload,quadrocopters,structure pose,deformation,eth zurich flying machine arena,characteristic deformation modes,flexible structures
Computer science,Aerospace engineering,Control engineering,Estimator,Payload
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
8
0.55
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robin Ritz1554.10
Raffaello D'andrea21592162.96