Review of designs and flight control techniques of hybrid and convertible VTOL UAVs

GJJ Ducard, M Allenspach - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a broad perspective and analysis of the work done in control of hybrid
and convertible unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the main existing designs. These flying …

A survey of hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles

AS Saeed, AB Younes, C Cai, G Cai - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
This article presents a comprehensive overview on the recent advances of miniature hybrid
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). For now, two conventional types, ie, fixed-wing UAV and …

A review on the platform design, dynamic modeling and control of hybrid UAVs

AS Saeed, AB Younes, S Islam, J Dias… - 2015 International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a review on the platform design, dynamic modeling and control of
hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). For now, miniature UAVs which have …

Optimal transition from hovering to level-flight of a quadrotor tail-sitter UAV

A Oosedo, S Abiko, A Konno, M Uchiyama - Autonomous Robots, 2017 - Springer
A quadrotor equipped with a fixed-wing (hereinafter referred to as the quadrotor tail-sitter
UAV) has been developed by authors. The quadrotor tail-sitter UAV can hover like a …

Design, control, and visual navigation of the DelftaCopter VTOL tail‐sitter UAV

C De Wagter, R Ruijsink, EJJ Smeur… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To participate in the Outback Medical Express UAV Challenge 2016, a vehicle was
designed and tested that can autonomously hover precisely, takeoff and land vertically, fly …

Tri-copter UAV with individually tilted main wings for flight maneuvers

KJ Nam, J Joung, D Har - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A tri-copter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with individually tilted main wings for various
flight maneuvers is presented. In contrast to conventional tilt wing UAVs, thrust vectoring and …

Design and testing of a vertical take-off and landing UAV optimized for carrying a hydrogen fuel cell with a pressure tank

C De Wagter, B Remes, R Ruijsink… - Unmanned …, 2020 - World Scientific
Flight endurance is still a bottleneck for many types of unmanned air vehicle (UAV)
applications. While battery technology improves over the years, for flights that last an entire …

Vertical take-off and landing hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles: An overview

M Rehan, F Akram, A Shahzad, TA Shams… - The Aeronautical …, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article presents the research status and development trends of Vertical Take-off and
Landing hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In this research, a special emphasis is laid on …

[PDF][PDF] Development of a dynamic model of a ducted fan VTOL UAV

HW Zhao - Melbourne, August, 2009 - researchrepository.rmit.edu.au
The technology of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) has been developing since its
conception many years ago. UAV has its own advantages such as, computerizing and …

Architecture and systems design of a reusable Martian twin rotor tailsitter

JL Forshaw, VJ Lappas - Acta Astronautica, 2012 - Elsevier
A rapidly developing field is that of tailsitters, aircraft capable of transitioning between
horizontal and vertical flight, a premise that supports a diverse range of applications …