{
  "id": "1810.00522",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-10-01T03:58:50.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-10-01T03:58:50.000Z",
  "title": "Decentralized collaborative transport of fabrics using micro-UAVs",
  "authors": [
    "Ryan Cotsakis",
    "David St-Onge",
    "Giovanni Beltrame"
  ],
  "comment": "Submitted to 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 6 pages",
  "categories": [
    "cs.RO"
  ],
  "abstract": "Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have generally little capacity to carry payloads. Through collaboration, the UAVs can increase their joint payload capacity and carry more significant loads. For maximum flexibility to dynamic and unstructured environments and task demands, we propose a fully decentralized control infrastructure based on a swarm-specific scripting language, Buzz. In this paper, we describe the control infrastructure and use it to compare two algorithms for collaborative transport: field potentials and spring-damper. We test the performance of our approach with a fleet of micro-UAVs, demonstrating the potential of decentralized control for collaborative transport.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-10-01T03:58:50.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "decentralized collaborative transport",
      "micro-uavs",
      "joint payload capacity",
      "small unmanned aerial vehicles",
      "field potentials"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}