Fully actuated multirotor UAVs: A literature review

R Rashad, J Goerres, R Aarts… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade, the aerial robotics community has witnessed an increased interest in fully
actuated multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that have more capabilities than …

Bio-inspired classification and evolution of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs): A comprehensive review

SW Hameed, N Imanberdiyev, E Camci, YW Yun… - Robotics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have become essential in many
applications like surveillance, disaster management, and aerial inspection. The diverse …

Maneuverability analysis of a fully-actuated hexrotor UAV considering tilt angles and arrangement of rotors

Y Tadokoro, T Ibuki, M Sampei - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper tackles maneuverability analysis of a fully-actuated hexrotor unmanned aerial
vehicle considering arrangement and tilt angles of 6 rotors. First, a dynamical model of the …

A comparison of closed-loop performance of multirotor configurations using non-linear dynamic inversion control

ML Ireland, A Vargas, D Anderson - Aerospace, 2015 - mdpi.com
Multirotor is the umbrella term for the family of unmanned aircraft, which include the
quadrotor, hexarotor and other vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that employ …

Integration of fully-actuated multirotors into real-world applications

A Keipour, M Mousaei, AT Ashley, S Scherer - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The introduction of fully-actuated multirotors has opened the door to new possibilities and
more efficient solutions to many real-world applications. However, their integration had been …

Wake interactions of a tetrahedron quadcopter

J Epps, K Garanger, E Feron - 2020 International Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the influence of the placement of a quadcopter's rotors with a tetrahedron
shape on its produced thrust. A tetrahedron quadcopter is a rotorcraft with four horizontal …

Classification and structural evaluation of fully-actuated hexrotor UAVs

Y Tadokoro, T Ibuki, M Sampei - 2018 Annual American Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a kind of taxonomy to classify and understand the acceleration
characteristics of fully-actuated hexrotor unmanned aerial vehicles. First, two special classes …

Multirotor configurations of an unmanned mini aircraft

S Kim - 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a unified static analysis for a class of multirotor configurations of an
unmanned mini aircraft, having two, three, four, and six rotors. These five multirotor …

Nonlinear Disturbance Observer-Based Sliding-Mode Geometric Controller for Fully-Actuated Hexarotor

Y Li, Y Zhang, Y Lin, J Wan - Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent …, 2022 - Springer
In this work we present the modeling and control of a fully-actuated hexarotor. A tilt angle for
each rotor allows the unmanned aircraft system to exert forces and moments in all the …

Framework for comparing and optimizing of fully actuated multirotor UAVs

J Goerres - 2019 - essay.utwente.nl
Multirotor UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have seen a great growth in popularity in the
past years. However the application of these UAVs has been limited to simple flying tasks …