Using a Quadrotor as a 3D Force Effector

Submitted by Antonio Franchi on

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This video shows experiments on demonstrating a control technique that allows to use a quadrotor as a 3D force effector, i.e., in order to exert a given 3D force on the enviroment.

Source:
G. Gioioso, Ryll, M., Prattichizzo, D., Bülthoff, H. H., and Franchi, A., “Turning a Near-hovering Controlled Quadrotor into a 3D Force Effector”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 6278-6284.

See [1] for the paper describing the method.

References

  1. G. Gioioso, Ryll, M., Prattichizzo, D., Bülthoff, H. H., and Franchi, A., “Turning a Near-hovering Controlled Quadrotor into a 3D Force Effector”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 6278-6284.