Using aerial robots
At present, flying vehicles are very popular. Even in their primary configuration where they are controlled by a radio controller, some flying vehicles can be considered as robots that respond to their environment in order to stay in the air. Such vehicles can use external sensors to estimate their state and pose, thus allowing them to fly autonomously. Of course, providing a flying robot with autonomy is more complicated than doing the same for a ground robot because of several reasons, listed here:
- Stabilization: A flying robot must be able to adjust its pose to hold its position and orientation relative to the environment. Inertial sensors are not enough to accomplish this task, since they are not able to estimate position divergence caused by external disturbances (like wind or ground airflow), or the possible errors generated due to an inertial measurement unit sensor.
- Low computation resources: Compared to a ground robot, flight platforms have...