Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

Observer-based event-triggered adaptive fuzzy hierarchical sliding mode fault-tolerant control for uncertain under-actuated nonlinear systems

S Yue, N Xu, L Zhang, N Zhao - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2024 - Springer
This paper studies an adaptive fuzzy event-triggered fault-tolerant control (FTC) problem for
a category of uncertain under-actuated nonlinear systems with unknown actuator failures …

Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

TiltDrone: A fully-actuated tilting quadrotor platform

P Zheng, X Tan, BB Kocer, E Yang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-directional aerial platforms can fly in almost any orientation and direction, often
maneuvering in ways their underactuated counterparts cannot match. A subset of multi …

Adaptive-control-oriented meta-learning for nonlinear systems

SM Richards, N Azizan, JJ Slotine… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Real-time adaptation is imperative to the control of robots operating in complex, dynamic
environments. Adaptive control laws can endow even nonlinear systems with good trajectory …

Smooth second-order sliding mode control for fully actuated multirotor aerial vehicles

JA Ricardo Jr, DA Santos - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper is concerned with the robust and smooth attitude-position tracking control
of fully actuated multirotor aerial vehicles equipped with fixed rotors and subject to matched …

Robust nonlinear control for the fully actuated hexa-rotor: Theory and experiments

G Flores, AM de Oca, A Flores - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter addresses a fully-actuated Hexa-rotor's control under exogenous position and
attitude disturbances. For that aim, we propose a nonlinear and robust control based on a …

Aerodynamic effects compensation on multi-rotor UAVs based on a neural network control allocation approach

SP Madruga, AHBM Tavares, SOD Luiz… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper shows that the aerodynamic effects can be compensated in a quadrotor system
by means of a control allocation approach using neural networks. Thus, the system …

Control and experiments of a novel tiltable-rotor aerial platform comprising quadcopters and passive hinges

L Ruan, CH Pi, Y Su, P Yu, S Cheng, TC Tsao - Mechatronics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the control and experiments of a novel multirotor aerial platform, which
is capable of full actuation for six Degree of Freedom (DoF) motions. The platform is …