Quadrotors unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

SN Ghazbi, Y Aghli, M Alimohammadi… - International journal on …, 2016 - sciendo.com
Quadrotors are Vertical Take-Off and Landing aerial vehicles with many potential
applications ranging from mapping to supporting rescue operations. This paper aims to …

Robust team formation control for quadrotors

W Jasim, D Gu - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, we develop a suboptimal H∞ controller for a leader-follower formation problem
of quadrotors with the consideration of external disturbances and model parameter …

Leader-following formation control of quadcopters with heading synchronization

A Mahmood, Y Kim - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper deals with leader-following formation control and heading synchronization for a
group of quadcopters. Unlike most of existing works that involve a complex design of …

3-D relative positioning sensor for indoor flying robots

JF Roberts, T Stirling, JC Zufferey, D Floreano - Autonomous Robots, 2012 - Springer
Swarms of indoor flying robots are promising for many applications, including searching
tasks in collapsing buildings, or mobile surveillance and monitoring tasks in complex man …

Two stage switching control for autonomous formation flight of unmanned aerial vehicles

L Ambroziak, Z Gosiewski - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an idea for controlling the formation flight of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Formation flight control with a leader–follower configuration based on position and velocity …

Distributed cooperative control of leader–follower multi-agent systems under packet dropouts for quadcopters

YJ Pan, H Werner, Z Huang, M Bartels - Systems & control letters, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper is to develop a novel distributed leader–follower algorithm for multi-agent
systems in the event of stochastic communication link failure over the network. Bernoulli …

Cooperative source seeking via gradient estimation and formation control (part 2)

E Rosero, H Werner - 2014 UKACC International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper and its companion paper [16], the problem of cooperative source seeking by a
formation of mobile agents is considered. Each agent is equipped with position and signal …

Disturbance observer-based formation tracking control of multiple quadrotors in the presence of disturbances

IM Lazim, AR Husain, Z Mohamed… - Transactions of the …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The presence of disturbances may bring adverse effects to the formation flight of multiple
quadrotors. This paper proposes a robust disturbance observer-based feedback …

Cooperative and consensus-based approaches to formation control of autonomous vehicles

M Bartels, H Werner - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a distributed robust control scheme for the formation flight of
autonomous aerial vehicles, which is obtained from combining two existing approaches …

Iterative linear quadratic regulator control for quadrotors leader-follower formation flight

W Jasim, D Gu - International Journal of Modelling …, 2019 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper presents an iterative linear quadratic regulator optimal control technique to solve
the problem of quadrotors leader-follower formation. The dynamic motion equations are …