Aerial Robotic Workers: Design, Modeling, Control, Vision and Their Applications

Aerial Robotic Workers: Design, Modeling, Control, Vision and Their Applications provides an in-depth look at both theory and practical applications surrounding the Aerial Robotic Worker (ARW). Emerging ARWs are fully autonomous flying robots that can assist human operations through their agile performance of aerial inspections and interaction with the surrounding infrastructure. This book addresses all the fundamental components of ARWs, starting with the hardware and software components and then addressing aspects of modeling, control, perception of the environment, and the concept of aerial manipulators, cooperative ARWs, and direct applications. The book includes sample codes and ROS-based tutorials, enabling the direct application of the chapters and real-life examples with platforms already existing in the market. Addresses the fundamental problems of UAVs with the ability of utilizing aerial tools in the fields of modeling, control, navigation, cooperation, vision and interaction with the environment Includes open source codes and libraries, providing a complete set of information for readers to start their experimentation with UAVs, and more specifically, ARWs Provides multiple, real-life examples and codes in MATLAB and ROS INDICE: 1. Towards the realization of the Aerial Robotic Workers2. The fundamental Hardware Modules of an ARW3. Modeling for ARWs4. Controller for ARWs5. Perception Capabilities for ARWs6. Navigation for ARWs7. Exploration for ARWs8. External Force Estimation for ARWs9. Vision for Aerial Manipulation10. Machine learning for ARWs11. Aerial Infrastructures Inspection12. ARW Deployment for Subterranean Environments13. Edge Connected ARWs

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814909-6
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés