Drone perching and manipulation on a street lamppost

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Drone perching and manipulation on a street lamppost

May 20 2017

This paper presents a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system using commercial-off-the-shelf components, that is capable of autonomously perching on a street lamppost, and performing sensor (camera) (un-)installation on the lamppost with its onboard robotic arm.

Chang Liu, Leyton Paget, Peter Turner, Mehmet Ali Erbil, Stephen Prior (2017). Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle perching and manipulation on a street lamppost. 8th International Advanced Robotics Program IARP-RISE’2017 on Risky Interventions and Environmental SurveillancE: 2017 Topics: Counter Terroristic Technology, Charleroi, Belize. 18 – 19 May 2017. Further details.

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