This work presents a novel aerial vehicle tailored for handling heavy tools on non-horizontal surfaces. The platform can shift its center-of-mass towards the work surface to enhance horizontal force generation and reduce the moment arm between the end-effector and the center-of-mass.
OmniNxt is a fully open-source aerial robotics platform that provides compact hardware design and real-time omnidirectional perception capabilities to enable advanced aerial tasks in complex environments.
XPLORER, a passive deformable quadrotor, showcases innovative contact-rich tasks enabled by collision-induced deformation.