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Aerial Grasping by a Quadrotor UAV Based on a Soft Gripper
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posted on 2020-12-24, 06:53 authored by OMAR ALI SYADIQEEN MALIKDespite the potential need for autonomous package delivery by drones, aerial
grasping is a challenging problem due to various issues such as the ability to identify
an object, navigate towards it, as well as to grasp various objects effectively. The
research investigates autonomous grasping by a quadrotor UAV by utilizing vision
based tracking on top of GPS-based navigation system and integrating a gripper
made of soft material to handle various types of objects. Based on real-world
experiments, the UAV’s flight stability, object detection ability and the performance of
the soft gripper to grasp various objects are analyzed.
