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AeroGrab: A Unified Framework for Aerial Grasping in Cluttered Environments
Mar 16, 2026Shivansh Pratap Singh, Naveen Sudheer Nair, Samaksh Ujjawal +4Aerial Robotics Robotic Grasping
Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India. · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
SEP-NMPC: Safety Enhanced Passivity-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a UAV Slung Payload System
Mar 9, 2026Seyedreza Rezaei, Junjie Kang, Amaldev Haridevan +1Nonlinear MPC Quadrotor Control
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Physics-infused Learning for Aerial Manipulator in Winds and Near-Wall Environments
Mar 8, 2026Yiming Zhang, Junyi GengAerial Manipulation Robust Control
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
AeroPlace-Flow: Language-Grounded Object Placement for Aerial Manipulators via Visual Foresight and Object Flow
Mar 8, 2026Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Naveen Nair +2Aerial Robotics Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation
Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India. · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK. · Newcastle University, UK
Energy-Efficient Collaborative Transport of Tether-Suspended Payloads via Rotating Equilibrium
Mar 7, 2026Eric Foss, Andrew Tai, Carlo Bosio +1Aerial Robotics Multi-Robot Coordination
High Performance Robotics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.
Swooper: Learning High-Speed Aerial Grasping With a Simple Gripper
Mar 6, 2026Ziken Huang, Xinze Niu, Bowen Chai +2Aerial Robotics Aerial Manipulation
School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
Autonomous Aerial Non-Destructive Testing: Ultrasound Inspection with a Commercial Quadrotor in an Unstructured Environment
Mar 4, 2026Ruben Veenstra, Barbara Bazzana, Sander Smits +1Robotic Inspection Industrial Inspection
Robotics and Mechatronics lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Tilt-X: Enabling Compliant Aerial Manipulation through a Tiltable-Extensible Continuum Manipulator
Feb 27, 2026Anuraj Uthayasooriyan, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti, Jack Breward +3Aerial Manipulation Aerial Robotics
QUT Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4000 · School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4000 · REF,Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4000
Systematic Analysis of Coupling Effects on Closed-Loop and Open-Loop Performance in Aerial Continuum Manipulators
Feb 21, 2026Niloufar Amiri, Shayan Sepahvand, Iraj Mantegh +1Continuum Robot Control Aerial Manipulation
Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada · Aerospace Research Center, National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Montreal, QC H3T 2B2, Canada
Nonlinear Predictive Control of the Continuum and Hybrid Dynamics of a Suspended Deformable Cable for Aerial Pick and Place
Feb 19, 2026Antonio Rapuano, Yaolei Shen, Federico Califano +2Aerial Manipulation Aerial Robotics
Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy. · Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) Faculty, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
AERMANI-VLM: Structured Prompting and Reasoning for Aerial Manipulation with Vision Language Models
Nov 3, 2025Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Avirup Das +3Aerial Robotics Structured Prompting
Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK · Newcastle University, UK
FLOAT Drone: A Fully-actuated Coaxial Aerial Robot for Close-Proximity Operations
Mar 2, 2025Junxiao Lin, Shuhang Ji, Yuze Wu +3Aerial Robotics Aerial Manipulation
State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

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AeroGrab: A Unified Framework for Aerial Grasping in Cluttered Environments

Shivansh Pratap Singh, Naveen Sudheer Nair, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sarthak Mishra+3

Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India. · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.

Aerial Robotics Robotic Grasping Aerial Manipulation

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Reliable aerial grasping in cluttered environments remains challenging due to occlusions and collision risks. Existing aerial manipulation pipelines largely rely on centroid-based grasping and lack integration between the grasp pose generation models, active exploration, and language-level task specification, resulting in the absence of a complete end-to-end system. In this work, we present an integrated pipeline for reliable aerial grasping in cluttered environments. Given a scene and a language instruction, the system identifies the target object and actively explores it to gain better views of the object. During exploration, a grasp generation network predicts multiple 6-DoF grasp candidates for each view. Each candidate is evaluated using a collision-aware feasibility framework, and the overall best grasp is selected and executed using standard trajectory generation and control methods. Experiments in cluttered real-world scenarios demonstrate robust and reliable grasp execution, highlighting the effectiveness of combining active perception with feasibility-aware grasp selection for aerial manipulation.