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[Submitted on 16 Sep 2026] Title:A Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation View a PDF of the paper titled A Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation, by Eri Sawada and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In recent years, aerial manipulation has attracted increasing attention as a key to expand the application of aerial robots. In this work, we focus on two major research directions for achieving versatile aerial manipulation: (i) acquiring high environmental adaptability using soft manipulators, and (ii) expanding the feasible wrench space by distributing thrusters along the manipulator. However, no aerial robot has simultaneously satisfied these two requirements. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a morphing rotor-distributed aerial robot with flexible continuum links that achieves both high shape adaptability and an expanded wrench space. The flexible continuum links function as soft manipulators, passively conforming to the shape of the environment, while the thrusters distributed along the continuum links expand the feasible thrust wrench space and enable the end-effector to exert large interaction forces. To realize the proposed robot, it is essential to suppress vibrations of the lightweight continuum links. Thus, we develop a composite leaf-spring structure that provides both high torsional and vertical stiffness, and vibration-suppressing control methods. Using these implementations, we demonstrate stable flight and a variety of aerial manipulation tasks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to realize aerial manipulations using flexible links with an integrated thruster. Comments: Accepted to 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO) Cite as: arXiv:2609.19328 [cs.RO] (or arXiv:2609.19328v1 [cs.RO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.19328 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Eri Sawada [view email] [v1] Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:47:47 UTC (5,407 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled A Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation, by Eri Sawada and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.RO new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)