Large and slow motions are handled by a tethered balloon

Small and fast 6 d.o.f. motions are handled by dextAIR

Safety of the system is increased by the tethered balloon

Possible tasks

• IR scanning of urban environments

• 3D reconstruction of urban environments using mobile LIDAR

Large and slow motions are handled by a mobile platform

Small and fast motions are handled by dextAIR

Possible tasks

• Precise and parsimonious fertilizer or pesticide delivery

• Mechanical removal of weeds

• Automated harvesting

Pick and place of items or parcels

Vision-guided packaging and palletizing

Large warehouse monitoring

3D printing of house or building

Active stabilization of heavy load suspended under a crane

Accurate vision-based positioning of heavy loads

Sports events broadcasting

dextAIR is used to stabilize the camera and to control pan/tilt angles

dextAIR is suspended to a cable-driven parallel manipulator (CDPR)

The CDPR is a 4-cables suspended robot anchored at the 4 corners of the stadium superstructure

Automated painting on large vertical surfaces

The spring may be coupled to a cable wound around an actuated winch to extend the workspace vertical size

Vertical mosaic construction is also possible