A Montecarlo Reactive Navigation Algorithm for a Dual Arm Aerial Robot

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a reactive algorithm for a dual arm aerial robot during its navigation phase. This algorithm takes into account not only the aerial platform dynamics but also the constraints imposed by the dual-arm manipulator. The UAV is fully and continuously controlled using velocity commands but the arms are only allowed to move between a set of predefined configurations. The arms configurations are bounded in order to achieve a reduced solution space for collision checking. The reactive navigation algorithm is based on commands from a higher-level path planner and receives as input point-cloud sensor readings. This work is within the framework of the AEROARMS project, so we consider the dual-arm aerial platform developed in the project. Thus, a simple but realistic model for velocity dynamics of the mentioned UAV has been obtained by means of real data, and the proposed method has been tested in a SITL simulation framework.

Keywords

Reactive navigation Aerial robotics Dual arm manipulator 
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Acknowledgements

This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644271 (AEROARMS).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Fran Real
    • 1
  • Ángel R. Castaño
    • 1
  • Jesús Capitán
    • 1
  1. 1.Robotics, Vision and Control GroupUniversity of SevilleSevilleSpain

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