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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Dynamic collaboration without communication: Vision-based cable-suspended load transport with two quadrotors
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Michael Gassner
  • Titus Cieslewski
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 978-1-5090-4633-1
Event Title IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Event Type conference
Event Location Singapore
Event Start Date May 29 - 2017
Event End Date June 3 - 2017
Place of Publication IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Publisher IEEE
Abstract Text Transport of objects is a major application in robotics nowadays. While ground robots can carry heavy payloads for long distances, they are limited in rugged terrains. Aerial robots can deliver objects in arbitrary terrains; however they tend to be limited in payload. It has been previously shown that, for heavy payloads, it can be beneficial to carry them using multiple flying robots. In this paper, we propose a novel collaborative transport scheme, in which two quadrotors transport a cable-suspended payload at accelerations that exceed the capabilities of previous collaborative approaches, which make quasi-static assumptions. Furthermore, this is achieved completely without explicit communication between the collaborating robots, making our system robust to communication failures and making consensus on a common reference frame unnecessary. Instead, they only rely on visual and inertial cues obtained from on-board sensors. We implement and validate the proposed method on a real system.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/icra.2017.7989609
Other Identification Number merlin-id:15101
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