{"id":216183,"date":"2025-06-18T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-dexterous-and-compliant-aerial-continuum-manipulator-for-cluttered-and-constrained-environments"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:18:23","slug":"a-dexterous-and-compliant-aerial-continuum-manipulator-for-cluttered-and-constrained-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-dexterous-and-compliant-aerial-continuum-manipulator-for-cluttered-and-constrained-environments","title":{"rendered":"A dexterous and compliant aerial continuum manipulator for cluttered and constrained environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PcanK-5e-qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nature Communications paper.<br \/> Paper link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-55157-2\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-55157-2<\/a><br \/> PDF link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/d7B8C\">https:\/\/rdcu.be\/d7B8C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This paper proposes a highly dexterous and compliant aerial continuum manipulator (Aerial Elephant Trunk). We have proposed the design, designed the shape estimation method, developed a feedback controller, and proposed a whole-body motion planning module such that the UAV and the continuum manipulator could carry out tasks as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>AET can perform various challenging aerial manipulation tasks, including but not limited to:<br \/> 1) grasping object of various sizes and shapes;<br \/> 2) traversing constrained pipelines with various shapes;<br \/> 3) aerial writing\/painting;<br \/> 4) performing manipulation in various complex environments.<\/p>\n<p>#robot #drone #uav #airplane #robotics #artificialintelligence #technology #learning #deeplearning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAVfutures\">@UAVfutures<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fpvdrones\">@fpvdrones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meninododronefpv\">@meninododronefpv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thedroneracingleague\">@Thedroneracingleague<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobotFutureAI\">@RobotFutureAI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Communications paper. Paper link: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-55157-2 PDF link: https:\/\/rdcu.be\/d7B8C This paper proposes a highly dexterous and compliant aerial continuum manipulator (Aerial Elephant Trunk). We have proposed the design, designed the shape estimation method, developed a feedback controller, and proposed a whole-body motion planning module such that the UAV and the continuum manipulator could carry out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}