The Importance of Modelling an Aerial Robotic Camera

 

Mirjana Filipović

 

An aerial robot (Cable-suspended Parallel Robot) has been under development for three decades. This system is now very attractive and useful to the public and is particularly interesting for engineering and scientific community from the perspective of its future intensive development. The research in this paper is directed towards the same goal, i.e. towards defining the Cable-suspended Parallel Robot that will follow and record a moving object with great accuracy wherever it is located in the workspace. The aim of this paper is a detailed analysis and development of the existing structure of aerial robots, which should enable their strong progress. This would be reflected in the implementation of highly-automated systems that would lead the camera precisely in space with the minimum participation of human labor. Setting and achieving this goal provide much wider possibilities for its future use. The sophisticated operation of this system can be provided only with the application of its high-fidelity mathematical model during the synthesis and analysis, which would further enable the development and application of modern control laws. Application possibilities are certainly much broader than it may be assumed at this moment, especially for military or police purposes.

Key words: robots, aerial recording, cable coupling, control, mathematical modelling.