Grasping Static and Moving Targets with a Soft Drone: Control and Prediction

This thesis studies the problem of grasping static and moving targets with a Soft Drone, which is a quadrotor platform where the landing gear is replaced with a soft manipulator. Whereas traditional rigid aerial manipulators are intolerant to positioning errors and susceptible to large contact force...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ubellacker, Samuel
Other Authors: Carlone, Luca
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139432