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

Aerial Robotic Workers: Design, Modeling, Control, Vision and Their Applications provides an in depth both theory and practical applications, view on the totally new concept of Aerial Robotic Worker (ARW). The emerging ARWs are fully autonomous flying robots that can assist human operations through their agile performamce of aerial inspections and interaction with the surrounding infrastructure.

The book addresses all the fundamental components of ARWs, starting with the hardware and software components,then addressing aspects of modeling, control, perception of the environment, and the concept of aerial manipulators, cooperative ARWs, and direct applications.

It also includes sample codes and ROS-based tutorials, enabling the direct application of the chapters andreal-life examples with platforms already existing in the market.
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