Using tethered robotics to launch flying and hovering robot agents for tactical air superiority in land warfare and anti-terrorist activities
Danny Ratner, Phillip John McKerrow · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004
This paper discusses conceptual ideas and simple experiments with prototypes of an aerial tethered robot carried by a hovering platform with a long cable. The robot includes a gravity stabilized sensing head and can host a cluster of robotic agents which are deployed very near to the ground target without exposing the host platform to risk.