Cooperative Transportation of a Flexible Payload Using Two Quadrotors

No AccessEngineering NotesCooperative Transportation of a Flexible Payload Using Two QuadrotorsTi Chen, Jinjun Shan and Hugh H. T. LiuTi Chen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-2521Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 210016 Nanjing, People’s Republic of China*Professor, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, 29 Yudao Street, Jiangsu; . Member AIAA.Search for more papers by this author, Jinjun Shan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-6739York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada†Professor, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, 4700 Keele Street; . Associate Fellow AIAA (Corresponding Author).Search for more papers by this author and Hugh H. T. LiuUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T6, Canada‡Professor, The Institute for Aerospace Studies, 4925 Dufferin Street, . 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AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported in part by funding from the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program from the Department of National Defence (DND) under Grant CFPMN2-051-YorkU. Any opinions and conclusions in this work are strictly those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of, and are not endorsed by, IDEaS, DND, or the Government of Canada.PDF Received11 January 2021Accepted22 May 2021Published online7 July 2021