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Visual Servoing of Aerial Manipulators

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This chapter describes the classical techniques to control an aerial manipulator by means of visual information and presents an uncalibrated image-based visual servo method to drive the aerial vehicle. The proposed technique has the advantage that it contains mild assumptions about the principal point and skew values of the camera, and it does not require prior knowledge of the focal length, in contrast to traditional image-based approaches.

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Santamaria-Navarro, A., Andrade-Cetto, J., Lippiello, V. (2019). Visual Servoing of Aerial Manipulators. In: Ollero, A., Siciliano, B. (eds) Aerial Robotic Manipulation. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 129. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12945-3_13

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