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A Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 16, 2026 · UTC

In recent years, aerial manipulation has attracted increasing attention as a key to expand the application of aerial robots. In this work, we focus on two major research directions for achieving versatile aerial manipulation: (i) acquiring high environmental adaptability using soft manipulators, and (ii) expanding the feasible wrench space by distributing thrusters along the manipulator. However, no aerial robot has simultaneously satisfied these two requirements. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a morphing rotor-distributed aerial robot with flexible continuum links that achieves both hig

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