@conference {2021h-CoeSarLeeBalFraKonOtt, title = {Hierarchical Control of Redundant Aerial Manipulators with Enhanced Field of View}, booktitle = {2021 Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems}, year = {2021}, month = {Sep.}, address = {Athens, Greece}, author = {Andre Coelho and Yuri Sarkisov and Jongseok Lee and Ribin Balachandran and Antonio Franchi and Konstantin Kondak and Christian Ott} } @article {2021b-CoeSarWu_MisSinDieFraKonOtt, title = {Whole-Body Teleoperation and Shared Control of Redundant Robots with Applications to Aerial Manipulation}, journal = {Journal of Intelligent \& Robotic Systems}, volume = {102}, year = {2021}, doi = {10.1007/s10846-021-01365-7}, author = {Andre Coelho and Yuri Sarkisov and Xuwei Wu and Hrishik Mishra and Harsimran Singh and Alexander Dietrich and Antonio Franchi and Konstantin Kondak and Christian Ott} } @conference {2019f-SarKimBicTseOttFraKon, title = {Development of SAM: cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation}, year = {2019}, month = {05/2019}, address = {Montreal, Canada}, abstract = { High risk of a collision between rotor blades and the obstacles in a complex environment imposes restrictions on the aerial manipulators. To solve this issue, a novel system cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator (SAM) is presented in this paper. Instead of attaching a robotic manipulator directly to an aerial carrier, it is mounted on an active platform which is suspended on the carrier by means of a cable. As a result, higher safety can be achieved because the aerial carrier can keep a distance from the obstacles. For self-stabilization, the SAM is equipped with two actuation systems: winches and propulsion units. This paper presents an overview of the SAM including the concept behind, hardware realization, control strategy, and the first experimental results.}, attachments = {https://homepages.laas.fr/afranchi/robotics/sites/default/files/2019f-SarKimBicTseOttFraKon-preprint.pdf}, author = {Yuri Sarkisov and Min J. Kim and Davide Bicego and D. Tsetserukou and Christian Ott and Antonio Franchi and Konstantin Kondak} } @article {2018m-OllHerFraAntKonSanVigSanTruBalAndRod, title = {The AEROARMS Project: Aerial Robots with Advanced Manipulation Capabilities for Inspection and Maintenance}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Floating-base (Aerial and Underwater) Manipulation}, volume = {25}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, pages = {12-23}, abstract = {This paper summarizes new aerial robotic manipu- lation technologies and methods, required for outdoor industrial inspection and maintenance, developed in the AEROARMS project. It presents aerial robotic manipulators with dual arms and multi-directional thrusters. It deals with the control systems, including the control of the interaction forces and the compliance, the teleoperation, which uses passivity to tackle the trade- off between stability and performance, perception methods for localization, mapping and inspection, and planning methods, including a new control-aware approach for aerial manipulation. Finally, it describes a novel industrial platform with multi- directional thrusters and a new arm design to increase the robustness in industrial contact inspections. The lessons learned in the application to outdoor aerial manipulation for inspection and maintenance are pointed out.}, attachments = {https://homepages.laas.fr/afranchi/robotics/sites/default/files/2018m-OllHerFraAntKonSanVigSanTruBalAndRod-preprint_3.pdf}, author = {Anibal Ollero and Guillermo Heredia and Antonio Franchi and Gianluca Antonelli and Konstantin Kondak and Alberto Sanfeliu and Antidio Viguria and Jose R. Martinez-de Dios and Francesco Pierri and Juan Cort{\'e}s and A. Santamaria-Navarro and Miguel A. Trujillo and Ribin Balachandran and Juan Andrade-Cetto and Angel Rodriguez} }