A survey of path following control strategies for UAVs focused on quadrotors

B Rubí, R Pérez, B Morcego - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2020 - Springer
The trajectory control problem, defined as making a vehicle follow a pre-established path in
space, can be solved by means of trajectory tracking or path following. In the trajectory …

Coordinated path-following in the presence of communication losses and time delays

R Ghabcheloo, AP Aguiar, A Pascoal, C Silvestre… - SIAM journal on control …, 2009 - SIAM
This paper addresses the problem of steering a group of vehicles along given spatial paths
while holding a desired time-varying geometrical formation pattern. The solution to this …

Moving path following for unmanned aerial vehicles with applications to single and multiple target tracking problems

T Oliveira, AP Aguiar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces the moving path following (MPF) problem, in which a vehicle is
required to converge to and follow a desired geometric moving path, without a specific …

Path following for small unmanned aerial vehicles using L1 adaptive augmentation of commercial autopilots

I Kaminer, A Pascoal, E Xargay… - Journal of guidance …, 2010 - arc.aiaa.org
The paper presents a three-dimensional path-following control algorithm that expands the
capabilities of conventional autopilots, which are normally designed to provide only …

Adaptive optimal path following for high wind flights

A Ratnoo, PB Sujit, M Kothari - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2011 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle path following is addressed as an infinite horizon regulator
problem. Using the linear quadratic regulator technique an optimal guidance law is derived …

Design of time-constrained guidance laws via virtual leader approach

Z Shiyu, Z Rui, W Chen, D Quanxin - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2010 - Elsevier
Guidance problems with flight time constraints are considered in this article. A new virtual
leader scheme is used for design of guidance laws with time constraints. The core idea of …

An evaluation of UAV path following algorithms

PB Sujit, S Saripalli, JB Sousa - 2013 European Control …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path following is the simplest desired autonomous navigation capability for UAVs. Several
approaches have been developed in the literature for path following. However, there is no …

Quadrotor path following and reactive obstacle avoidance with deep reinforcement learning

B Rubí, B Morcego, R Pérez - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2021 - Springer
A deep reinforcement learning approach for solving the quadrotor path following and
obstacle avoidance problem is proposed in this paper. The problem is solved with two …

Deep reinforcement learning for quadrotor path following with adaptive velocity

B Rubí, B Morcego, R Pérez - Autonomous Robots, 2021 - Springer
This paper proposes a solution for the path following problem of a quadrotor vehicle based
on deep reinforcement learning theory. Three different approaches implementing the Deep …

Path‐following control for small fixed‐wing unmanned aerial vehicles under wind disturbances

C Liu, O McAree, WH Chen - International Journal of Robust …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents an alternative method of designing a guidance controller for a small
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) so as to perform path following under wind disturbances …