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  1. Effector-Centric NMPC of Tiltable-Multirotors for Offset-Free Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation

    Aug 18, 2026Jinjie Li, Yicheng Chen, Johannes Kübel +3Aerial ManipulationAerial Robotics

    All authors are with the DRAGON Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  2. FAM-DQ: A Dual-Quadrotor-Based Fully Actuated Aerial Manipulator for High-Torque Interaction

    Aug 13, 2026Xuwei Yang, Ruoyu Ren, Ziqian GuoAerial RoboticsQuadrotor Control

  3. Aerial Layouting: Design and Control of a Compliant and Actuated End-Effector for Precise In-flight Marking on Ceilings

    Aug 11, 2026Christian Lanegger, Marco Ruggia, Marco Tognon +2Robotic ConstructionRobotic Manipulation

    Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  4. Robust Sliding Mode and Admittance Control of Underactuated Aerial Manipulators for Contact-Based Inspection

    Aug 11, 2026Tareq Aziz Alqutami, Yvan Petillot, Matthew W. Dunnigan +1Robotic InspectionAdmittance Control

    Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Malaysia · School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

  5. Hybrid Impedance-Admittance Control with Multi-Link Aerial Robot for Contact-Rich Surface Sliding Task

    Aug 3, 2026Zicheng Luo, Maolin Lei, Jinjie Li +3Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationAdmittance Control

    Department of Mechanical-Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  6. A Tilt-Rotor UAV with a Gripper for Stable Contact-Based Tasks via Environmental Anchoring

    Aug 3, 2026Joshua Taylor, Nursultan Imanberdiyev, Wei-Yun Yau +2Aerial RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore.

  7. Contact-Persistent Full Actuation for Aerial Physical Interaction

    Jul 22, 2026Abhimanyu Khadga, Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan KumarAerial RoboticsAerial Manipulation

    Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA · Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India

  8. Task-Adaptive Design of Modular Aerial Manipulators Under Airflow Exposure Constraints

    Jul 10, 2026Mengguang Li, Heinz KoepplRoboticsRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

  9. Aerial Manipulation: Contact, Medium Coupling, and the Geometry of Readiness

    Jul 6, 2026Antonio FranchiAerial RoboticsAerial Manipulation

    Robotics and Mechatronics lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

  10. FLOAT Drone for Physical Interaction: Lateral Airflow Reduction, Wrench Modeling, and Adaptive Control

    Jul 5, 2026Junxiao Lin, Kehan Zhou, Shuhang Ji +4Aerial RoboticsAdaptive Control

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Differential Robotics Technology Company, Hangzhou 311100, China

  11. U-Joint CAAMS: Experimental Evaluation of a Universal-Joint Continuum Manipulator for Aerial Manipulation

    Jul 3, 2026Anuraj Uthayasooriyan, Musab Alibrahim, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti +2Aerial RoboticsSoft Robotics

    QUT Centre for Robotics · School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics · REF, QUT, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4000.

  12. MorphQuad: Morphable Quadrotor for Superhuman Maneuverability, Manipulation, and Resiliency

    Jul 2, 2026J. Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, J. Xu, A. Zhao +7Aerial RoboticsQuadrotor Control

    Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan.

  13. Learning to Throw: Agile and Accurate Cable-Suspended Payload Delivery with a Quadrotor

    Jun 25, 2026Yifan Zhai, Elia Raimondi, Yunfan Ren +4RL for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Robotics and Perception Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  14. Decentralized Geometric Control for Cable-Suspended Payload Transport with Adaptive Mass Estimation

    Jun 20, 2026Hadi Hajieghrary, Benedikt Walter, Paul Schmitt +1Multi-Agent CoordinationQuadrotor Control

  15. Reinforcement Learning with Inner-loop Dynamics Estimator for Aerial Manipulation under Uncertainty

    Jun 15, 2026Shivansh Pratap Singh, Samaksh Ujjwal, Ishita Chaudhary +3Robot Dynamics IdentificationRL for Robotics

    International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India. · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.

  16. AERMANI-PLACE: Language Guided Object Placement with Aerial Manipulators

    Jun 12, 2026Sarthak Mishra, Ritama Sanyal, Rishabh Dev Yadav +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language Grounding

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

  17. AIR-VLA+: Decoupling Movement and Manipulation via Cascaded Dual-Action Decoders with Asymmetric MoE for Aerial Robots

    Jun 11, 2026Jianli Sun, Bin Tian, Qiyao Zhang +6VLMs for RoboticsAerial Manipulation

    The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology · College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University +2

  18. Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 7, 2026Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao +9Meta-Reinforcement LearningAerial Manipulation

    National Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China +1

  19. A Progress-Aware Leader-Follower Midair Docking System for Dual-Drone Aerial Manipulation

    May 28, 2026Yifan Cai, Jan Ming Kevin Tan, Xiangqi Li +3Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  20. Self-assembling Modular Aerial Robot for Versatile Aerial Tasks

    May 19, 2026Junichiro Sugihara, Masaki Kitagawa, Jinjie Li +4Aerial RoboticsModular Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan. · Department of Mechano Informatics, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan.

  21. Learning Cross-Coupled and Regime Dependent Dynamics for Aerial Manipulation

    May 14, 2026Rishabh Dev Yadav, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sihao Sun +2Aerial RoboticsOnline System Identification

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchaster, U.K. · Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands · International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad. +1

  22. AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs

    May 7, 2026Jiawei Xu, Longsen Gao, Rafael Fierro +1Robot Trajectory TrackingAerial Robotics

    Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (AIRLab), Lehigh University, PA, 18015, USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

  23. An Aerial Manipulator for Perception-Driven Flower Targeting Toward Contactless Pollination in Vertical Farming

    May 7, 2026Chenzhe Jin, Zhuohang Wu, Yifan Cai +4Aerial RoboticsAgricultural Robotics

    Department of Computer Science University College London London, United Kingdom · Department of Artificial Intelligence University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  24. Sensorless State Estimation and Control for Agile Cable-Suspended Payload Transport by Quadrotors

    May 5, 2026Ana Maria Nascimento, Augusto Sales, Antonio Marcus Lima +1Aerial RoboticsNonlinear MPC

  25. Robust Adaptive Predictive Control for Hook-Based Aerial Transportation Between Moving Platforms

    May 4, 2026Péter Antal, Andrea Carron, Melanie Zeilinger +2Robust ControlModel Predictive Control

    Systems and Control Lab, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Budapest, Hungary · Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland · Control Systems Group of the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  26. AI-Enabled Image-Based Hybrid Vision/Force Control of Tendon-Driven Aerial Continuum Manipulators

    Apr 21, 2026Shayan Sepahvand, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad AghiliRobotic ControlAerial Robotics

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada · Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

  27. Force Polytope-Based Cant-Angle Selection for Tilting Hexarotor UAVs

    Apr 7, 2026Alberto Piccina, Massimiliano Bertoni, Angelo Cenedese +1Aerial RoboticsAerial Manipulation

    Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy · Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy · Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  28. Meta-Adaptive Beam Search Planning for Transformer-Based Reinforcement Learning Control of UAVs with Overhead Manipulators under Flight Disturbances

    Mar 27, 2026Hazim Alzorgan, Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni, Abolfazl RaziAerial ManipulationRobot Trajectory Tracking

    School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29632, USA

  29. ππ, But Make It Fly: Physics-Guided Transfer of VLA Models to Aerial Manipulation

    Mar 26, 2026Johnathan Tucker, Denis Liu, Aiden Swann +7Aerial ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Stanford University · Physical Intelligence

  30. Strain-Parameterized Coupled Dynamics and Dual-Camera Visual Servoing for Aerial Continuum Manipulators

    Mar 24, 2026Niloufar Amiri, Farrokh Janabi-SharifiAerial ManipulationAerial Robotics

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, ON, Canada.