Aerial Robotic Workers

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. Addresses all the fundamental problems of UAVs with the ability of utilizing aerial tools in the fields of modeling, control, navigation, cooperation, vision and interaction with the environment Includes open source codes and libraries, providing a complete set of information for readers to start their experimentation with UAVs and more specifically ARWs Provides multiple real-life examples and codes in MATLAB and ROS