A survey of guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned aerial systems

JA Marshall, W Sun, A L'Afflitto - Annual Reviews in control, 2021 - Elsevier
This survey paper presents a holistic perspective on the state-of-the-art in the design of
guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned …

Desired tracking of delayed quadrotor UAV under model uncertainty and wind disturbance using adaptive super-twisting terminal sliding mode control

O Mofid, S Mobayen, C Zhang, B Esakki - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the fully-actuated dynamic equation of quad-rotor as a type of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) is considered in the existence of input-delay, model uncertainty and wind …

Adaptive terminal sliding mode control for attitude and position tracking control of quadrotor UAVs in the existence of external disturbance

O Mofid, S Mobayen, WK Wong - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a 6-Degrees-of-Freedom (6-DOF) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system with
external disturbance corresponding to sensor failure is considered. The control method is …

[HTML][HTML] Robust LQR and LQR-PI control strategies based on adaptive weighting matrix selection for a UAV position and attitude tracking control

AS Elkhatem, SN Engin - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are subject to the wind and other environmental
disturbances that can destabilize them. The high performance and robustness of the Linear …

Feedback Linearization with Zero Dynamics Stabilization for Quadrotor Control

L Martins, C Cardeira, P Oliveira - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2021 - Springer
A control solution for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle encapsulating a nonlinear inner-loop
based on the application of feedback linearization to the attitude and altitude dynamics is …

[HTML][HTML] Quaternion-based adaptive backstepping fast terminal sliding mode control for quadrotor uavs with finite time convergence

A Shevidi, HA Hashim - Results in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel quaternion-based approach for tracking the translation
(position and linear velocity) and rotation (attitude and angular velocity) trajectories of …

Robust tracking control for quadrotor with unknown nonlinear dynamics using adaptive neural network based fractional-order backstepping control

L Guettal, A Chelihi, R Ajgou, MM Touba - Journal of the Franklin institute, 2022 - Elsevier
This work aims to design a neural network-based fractional-order backstepping controller
(NNFOBC) to control a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) quadrotor unmanned aerial …

Generic adaptive sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV system subject to severe parametric uncertainties and fully unknown external disturbance

T Huang, D Huang, Z Wang, X Dai, A Shah - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
This paper aims to provide a generic robust controller that is able to manipulate all kinds of
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems automatically or adaptively in the …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study between nmpc and baseline feedback controllers for UAV trajectory tracking

BS Guevara, LF Recalde, J Varela-Aldás, VH Andaluz… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Transport, rescue, search, surveillance, and disaster relief tasks are some applications that
can be developed with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where accurate trajectory tracking …

Inner-outer feedback linearization for quadrotor control: two-step design and validation

L Martins, C Cardeira, P Oliveira - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
This paper proposes a novel control architecture for quadrotors that relies twice on the
Feedback Linearization technique. The solution comprises a tracking inner-loop resulting …