This work reports on the development and evaluation of an aerial system for active tool handling on remote locations. In the proposed approach a multirotor UAV is responsible for moving an end-effector with a tool to the region of interest and providing sufficient contact force for the endeffector to accomplish the desired task. The end-effector is equipped with actuated wheels that rely on the contact force to both allow an operator to re-position while in contact with the environment and perform the tool operation.Preliminary experiments validate the approach in a cleaning scenario and demonstrate the repeatability in an experiment with 18 consecutive repetitions of the approach.
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