Small-scale propellers, especially those used on conventional multicopter configurations or
in the context of urban air mobility, may experience high inflow angles. In order to improve …

Incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion is a sensor-based control approach that promises
to provide high-performance nonlinear control without requiring a detailed model of the …

The backdrop to the rapidly expanding use of drones is described, including development of
drone technology, followed by an overview of current civilian use, focusing on use in and …

Propellers used for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft propulsion systems
experience a wide range of aerodynamic conditions, including large incidence angles …

Nowadays, complex image processing algorithms are a necessity to make UAVs more
autonomous. Currently, the processing of images of the on-board camera is often performed …

This paper investigates the ability of a quadrotor to maneuver in a wind field. A dynamic
model of a quadrotor is presented to model its motion. The quadrotor model includes a wind …

This paper presents the modeling of the performance of small propellers used for vertical
takeoff and landing micro aerial vehicles operating at low Reynolds numbers and in oblique …

The performance characteristics of a rotor that is typically used for small unmanned aircraft
were analyzed in a series of wind‐tunnel experiments. Wind‐tunnel measurements were …

The study provided a base of comparison of known computational techniques with different
fidelity levels for performance and noise prediction of a single, fixed-pitch UAV rotor …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a physics-based model for UAV propellers
that is capable of predicting all aerodynamic forces and moments in any general forward …