JHU Pick-and-place aerial vehicle

This work develops autonomous pick-and-place capabilities using a VTOL aerial vehicle such as a quadrotor. A light-weight manipulator with gripper was designed and integrated with visual servoing for object grasping. Control is based on both reactive low-level controllers and on optimal trajectory generation exploiting the multi-body dynamics of the system.

The capability of the system has been demonstrated on aerial pick-and-place, remote sensor placement, and fruit picking tasks.

More information about the object tracking technique can be found here.