Aerial Robots and Infrastructure of Their Working Environment -- Microgrippers: Principle of Operation, Construction and Control Method -- Worm-Like Locomotion Systems for In-Pipe Robots and Its Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller Design -- Tactical Level of Intelligent Geometric Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- Three-Dimensional Consensus-Based Control of Autonomous UAV Swarm Formations -- Approach to UAV Swarm Control and Collision-Free Reconfiguration -- Approach to Robotic Mobile Platform Path Planning upon Analysis of Aerial Imaging Data -- Improving Methods of Objects Detection Using Infrared Sensors Aboard the UAV -- Integrated Sensor System for Controlling of Altitude-Velocity Parameters of Unmanned Aircraft Plane on the Basis of Vortex Method -- Synthesis of SimMechanics Model of a Quadcopter using SolidWorks CAD Translator Function.

This book features selected papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics “Zavalishin's Readings” – ER(ZR) 2020, held in Ufa, Russia, on 15–18 April 2020. The contributions, written by professionals, researchers and students, cover topics in the field of automatic control systems, electromechanics, electric power engineering and electrical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, automation and vibration technologies. The Zavalishin's Readings conference was established as a tribute to the memory of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Zavalishin (1900–1968) – a Russian scientist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and founder of the school of valve energy converters based on electric machines and valve converters energy. The first conference was organized by the Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in 2006.