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Record W4407938072 · doi:10.1109/tim.2025.3545495

Design and Control of a Fully Actuated Aerial Manipulator System for Measuring the Thickness of Metal Facilities

2025· article· en· W4407938072 on OpenAlex
Shuang Hao, Juzheng Mao, Guangming Song, Aiguo Song, Peter Liu

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsManipulator (device)Control systemEngineeringControl engineeringControl (management)Mechanical engineeringMaterials scienceControl theory (sociology)Computer scienceElectrical engineeringRobotic armArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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An aerial manipulator (AM) system for thickness measurement of metal facilities is introduced in this article, which includes a fully actuated flying platform and an end effector. The AM utilizes the fully actuated advantage of the flying platform to apply controlled contact forces to the environment without the need for complex robotic manipulators. An end effector is designed, which includes an ultrasonic thickness (UT) probe mounted on a spring-damping buffer, and a coupling agent injection device allows the coupling to be applied during the inspection process. We divide the aerial inspection process into two phases: the approach phase and the contact phase. In the approach phase, we design a yaw control assistance method to ensure that the AM can contact the target surface with the desired yaw, even outside the operator’s line of sight. In the contact phase, a parallel force/velocity controller tailored to the motion characteristic of the AM is proposed to achieve precise contact force control. A switching function is designed to ensure stable transitions between the motion control and force control. The control effectiveness and the ability to measure the thickness of the metal facility of the AM system are demonstrated by practical experiments.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.942
Threshold uncertainty score0.309

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.184 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it