We propose a novel collaborative transport scheme, in which two quadrotors transport a cable-suspended payload at accelerations that exceed the capabilities of previous collaborative approaches, which make quasi-static assumptions. Furthermore, this is achieved completely without explicit communication between the collaborating robots, making our system robust to communication failures and making consensus on a common reference frame unnecessary. Instead, they only rely on visual and inertial cues obtained from on-board sensors.
Reference:
M. Gassner, T. Cieslewski, D. Scaramuzza
Dynamic Collaboration without Communication: Vision-Based Cable-Suspended Load Transport with Two Quadrotors, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017
PDF:
rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/ICRA17_Gassner.pdf
Our research page on multi-robot systems:
rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research_multirobot.html
Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, 2017