As part of the series of colloquia organized by the FP7 project ACROSS , Dr. Ivana Palunko, the ex-LARICS student and former PhD student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, currently being employed at the Faculty of EE&C in Zagreb as the ACROSS postdoctoral researcher, held a very interesting lecture about the load transportation using quadrotors. In her talk, she investigated problems that occur during load transportation using small scale quadrotors.
First, the problem of quadrotor stabilization and trajectory tracking with changes of the centre of gravity of the system was addressed. Then she addressed the problem of a swing-free transport of suspended load using quadrotors. Flying with a load can be a very challenging and sometimes hazardous task as the load significantly alters the flight characteristics of the quadrotor. Besides the swing-free manoeuvres with suspended load, load trajectory tracking is another problem she defined and presented. At the end, she proposed an algorithm for navigation in cluttered environments considering a quadrotor with suspended load.