In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their
flexibility, mobility, and accessibility in various fields, including search and rescue (SAR) …

This article reviews the state-of-the-art modeling and control techniques for aerial robots
such as quadrotor systems and presents several future research directions in this area. The …

Precise near-ground trajectory control is difficult for multi-rotor drones, due to the complex
aerodynamic effects caused by interactions between multi-rotor airflow and the environment …

Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and
rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications …

Automated vehicles navigate through their environment by first planning and subsequently
following a safe trajectory. To prove safer than human beings, they must ultimately perform …

Designing effective low-level robot controllers often entail platform-specific implementations
that require manual heuristic parameter tuning, significant system knowledge, or long design …

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has become a popular framework in embedded control for
high-performance autonomous systems. However, to achieve good control performance …

Quadrotors are extremely agile, so much in fact, that classic first-principle-models come to
their limits. Aerodynamic effects, while insignificant at low speeds, become the dominant …

Due to the rising concept of advanced air mobility (AAM), electric vertical take-off and
landing (eVTOL) aircraft has become the hotspot for academic research and commercial …

Many innovative applications of vehicle control involve trajectory following while avoiding
collisions, respecting actuator and dynamic limits, and using complex nonlinear dynamics …