Review of Aerial Transportation of Suspended-Cable Payloads with Quadrotors

Julian Estevez; Gorka Garate; Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede; Mikel Larrea

doi:10.3390/drones8020035

journal article Open Access Jan 25, 2024

Review of Aerial Transportation of Suspended-Cable Payloads with Quadrotors

Julian Estevez

Gorka Garate

Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

Mikel Larrea

Drones Vol. 8 No. 2 pp. 35 · MDPI AG

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Abstract

Payload transportation and manipulation by rotorcraft drones are receiving a lot of attention from the military, industrial and logistics research areas. The interactions between the UAV and the payload, plus the means of object attachment or manipulation (such as cables or anthropomorphic robotic arms), may be nonlinear, introducing difficulties in the overall system performance. In this paper, we focus on the current state of the art of aerial transportation systems with suspended loads by a single UAV and a team of them and present a review of different dynamic cable models and control systems. We cover the last sixteen years of the existing literature, and we add a discussion for evaluating the main trends in the referenced research works.

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Published: Jan 25, 2024
Vol/Issue: 8(2)
Pages: 35
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Authors

J

Julian Estevez

Group of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering of Gipuzkoa, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 20080 San Sebastian, Spain

G

Gorka Garate

Group of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering of Gipuzkoa, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 20080 San Sebastian, Spain

J

Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

Group of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 01006 Vitoria, Spain

M

Mikel Larrea

Group of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering of Gipuzkoa, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 20080 San Sebastian, Spain

Funding

Basque Government Award: PID2020-116346GB-I00

FEDER Award: PID2020-116346GB-I00

ELKARTEK Award: PID2020-116346GB-I00

Fundacion Vitoria-Gasteiz Araba Mobility Lab Award: PID2020-116346GB-I00

Cite This Article

Julian Estevez, Gorka Garate, Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede, et al. (2024). Review of Aerial Transportation of Suspended-Cable Payloads with Quadrotors. Drones, 8(2), 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8020035

Review of Aerial Transportation of Suspended-Cable Payloads with Quadrotors

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