Aerial Robotics – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Interaction with the Environment

Sa？etak Defined as technology that provides services and facilitates the execution of tasks (such as observation, inspection, mapping, search and rescue, maintenance, etc.) by using unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with various sensors and actuators, aerial robotics in one of the fastest growing field in research as well as in the industry. While some of the services provided by aerial robots have already been put into practice (for example aerial inspection and aerial mapping), others (like aerial manipulation) are still at the level of laboratory experimentation on account of their complexity. The ability of an aerial robotic system to interact physically with objects within its surroundings completely transforms the way we view applications of unmanned aerial systems in near-Earth environments. This change in paradigm conveying such new functionalities as aerial tactile inspection; aerial repair, construction, and assembly; aerial agricultural care; and aerial urban sanitation requires an extension of current modeling and control techniques as well as the development of novel concepts. In this article we are giving a very brief introduction to the field of aerial robots