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Cooperative Aerial Transportation of a Payload with a Sliding Cable Attachment

Sebastian Tilaguy Lezama·Diego S D'Antonio
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This paper presents a dual-quadrotor hook- suspended transport system for cooperative aerial manipulation of a payload that is not rigidly attached to a fixed point along the cable. Two quadrotors are connected by a single inextensible cable that passes through a frictionless hook mounted on the payload, allowing the cable to slide between its two segments. This introduces a cable-distribution variable that couples the quadrotor motion, cable geometry, and payload dynamics. A feasible reference-generation framework is formulated using the desired payload pose, cable distribution, and system shape while satisfying the cable-length constraint and elliptical workspace. The quadrotors track the geometrically generated trajectories while maintaining positive cable tension and respecting actuator limits. The payload pose is estimated from the system geometry, and its measured position is used only to validate the desired trajectory. The approach is evaluated through experimental demonstrations.

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Sebastian Tilaguy Lezama, Diego S D'Antonio. 2026-10-09. Cooperative Aerial Transportation of a Payload with a Sliding Cable Attachment. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13665

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