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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Payload transportation"”.
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Cooperative control of autonomous mobile robot collectives in payload transportation
… robots in the lifting and lowering processes of payload transportation. Unlike previous applications of behavior-based control to payload transportation, we examine control of a payload in a vertical plane. Others before have examined moving payloads on a horizontal surface through pushing …
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Cooperative Payload Transportation by UAVs: A Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning (MBDRL) Application
… (MBDRL) framework for collaborative paylaod transportation using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions, enabling heavier payload conveyance while maintaining vehicle agility. Our approach extends the single-drone application to a novel multi-drone one, using the …
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Adaptive Predictive Controllers for Agile Quadrupedal Locomotion with Unknown Payloads
… However, locomotion tasks involving unknown payload transportation on rough terrains pose significant challenges, requiring adaptive control strategies to ensure stability and performance. This dissertation contributes to the advancement of adaptive motion planning and control solutions that …
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Energy-saving Trajectory And Control Design For Quadrotors With Slung Payloads
Quadrotors have promising applications such as payload transportation, which can change the future of the package delivery industry. However, many challenges block the way of implementing payload transportation in reality. Slung payload vibrations and quadrotor's energy consumption are among the …
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Simulations of a three degree of freedom brachiating Y-bot robot
… benchmark. The problems of gait optimization and payload transportation were mentioned as future work to be done.
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Fault detection, isolation, and recovery for autonomous parafoils
… over traditional ground- or helicopter-based payload transportation methods. The occurrence of a fault during a flight can severely degrade vehicle performance, effectively nullifying the value of the guided system, or worse. Quickly detecting and identifying faults enables the choice of an …
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Trustable Adaptive Controllers for Multi-Agent Systems with Actuator Dynamics
… (e.g., surveillance, reconnaissance, and payload transportation). However, they suffer system anomalies due to the operational and material conditions, which yields degraded performance or even instability. Hence, this dissertation investigates the distributed adaptive control design …
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Real-time control architecture for a multi UAV test bed
… surveillance, trajectory tracking and suspended payload transportation are just some of the applications carried out employing the real-time control architecture proposed in this thesis.