Aerial Grasping via Maximizing Delta-Arm Workspace Utilization

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Main Authors: Chen, Haoran, Deng, Weiliang, Ye, Biyu, Xiong, Yifan, Pan, Zongliang, Lyu, Ximin
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Published: 2025
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author Chen, Haoran
Deng, Weiliang
Ye, Biyu
Xiong, Yifan
Pan, Zongliang
Lyu, Ximin
author_facet Chen, Haoran
Deng, Weiliang
Ye, Biyu
Xiong, Yifan
Pan, Zongliang
Lyu, Ximin
contents The workspace limits the operational capabilities and range of motion for the systems with robotic arms. Maximizing workspace utilization has the potential to provide more optimal solutions for aerial manipulation tasks, increasing the system's flexibility and operational efficiency. In this paper, we introduce a novel planning framework for aerial grasping that maximizes workspace utilization. We formulate an optimization problem to optimize the aerial manipulator's trajectory, incorporating task constraints to achieve efficient manipulation. To address the challenge of incorporating the delta arm's non-convex workspace into optimization constraints, we leverage a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to map position points to feasibility probabilities.Furthermore, we employ Reversible Residual Networks (RevNet) to approximate the complex forward kinematics of the delta arm, utilizing efficient model gradients to eliminate workspace constraints. We validate our methods in simulations and real-world experiments to demonstrate their effectiveness.
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spellingShingle Aerial Grasping via Maximizing Delta-Arm Workspace Utilization
Chen, Haoran
Deng, Weiliang
Ye, Biyu
Xiong, Yifan
Pan, Zongliang
Lyu, Ximin
Robotics
The workspace limits the operational capabilities and range of motion for the systems with robotic arms. Maximizing workspace utilization has the potential to provide more optimal solutions for aerial manipulation tasks, increasing the system's flexibility and operational efficiency. In this paper, we introduce a novel planning framework for aerial grasping that maximizes workspace utilization. We formulate an optimization problem to optimize the aerial manipulator's trajectory, incorporating task constraints to achieve efficient manipulation. To address the challenge of incorporating the delta arm's non-convex workspace into optimization constraints, we leverage a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to map position points to feasibility probabilities.Furthermore, we employ Reversible Residual Networks (RevNet) to approximate the complex forward kinematics of the delta arm, utilizing efficient model gradients to eliminate workspace constraints. We validate our methods in simulations and real-world experiments to demonstrate their effectiveness.
title Aerial Grasping via Maximizing Delta-Arm Workspace Utilization
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15539