A Survey on Load Transportation Using Multirotor UAVs
Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial cargo. Aiming at being the first reading for novice researchers and graduate students, this survey highlights meaningful research works of several groups worldwide, considering two basic approaches, namely grasped and cable suspended load transportation. Different control techniques and maneuver strategies are analyzed, and their benefits and drawbacks are discussed. Moreover, experimental validation was a key aspect to the highlighted works, thus, links to the videos showing the experimental results are provided for each work.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst.