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Aerial Robots and Infrastructure of Their Working Environment

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Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin's Readings"

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Aerial robots (also known as UAVs—unmanned aerial vehicles) are increasingly being introduced into our life. Today, we can see aerial robots in agriculture, building industry, delivery services, security and monitoring systems and so on. More frequently not single UAVs but their groups are used. And it would be reasonable to control such groups at all functioning stages, including on-ground maintenance, in automatic mode. Development of infrastructure for automatic service and maintenance of aerial robots has appeared on the agenda of many companies specializing in unmanned aerial systems. Some aspects of such infrastructure creation are discussed in this paper with special emphasis on charging stations for UAVs with electrical propulsion system.

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    Vladimir Fetisov

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Fetisov, V. (2021). Aerial Robots and Infrastructure of Their Working Environment. In: Ronzhin, A., Shishlakov, V. (eds) Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin's Readings". Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 187. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5580-0_1

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