Advanced model predictive control framework for autonomous intelligent mechatronic systems: A tutorial overview and perspectives

Y Shi, K Zhang - Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review on the development and application of model predictive
control (MPC) for autonomous intelligent mechatronic systems (AIMS). Starting from the …

A survey of guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned aerial systems

JA Marshall, W Sun, A L'Afflitto - Annual Reviews in control, 2021 - Elsevier
This survey paper presents a holistic perspective on the state-of-the-art in the design of
guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned …

Learning minimum-time flight in cluttered environments

R Penicka, Y Song, E Kaufmann… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We tackle the problem of minimum-time flight for a quadrotor through a sequence of
waypoints in the presence of obstacles while exploiting the full quadrotor dynamics. Early …

Model predictive control for micro aerial vehicles: A survey

H Nguyen, M Kamel, K Alexis… - 2021 European Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a review of the design and application of model predictive control
strategies for Micro Aerial Vehicles and specifically multirotor configurations such as …

Collision avoidance of high-speed obstacles for mobile robots via maximum-speed aware velocity obstacle method

T Xu, S Zhang, Z Jiang, Z Liu, H Cheng - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is challenging for a mobile robot to avoid moving obstacles in dynamic environments.
Traditional velocity obstacle methods do not fully consider the obstacles moving with the …

Deep reinforcement learning for end-to-end local motion planning of autonomous aerial robots in unknown outdoor environments: Real-time flight experiments

O Doukhi, DJ Lee - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autonomous navigation and collision avoidance missions represent a significant challenge
for robotics systems as they generally operate in dynamic environments that require a high …

Safety barrier certificates for path integral control: Safety-critical control of quadrotors

T Jin, J Di, X Wang, H Ji - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The safety issue arises as one of the most important requirements for autonomous quadrotor
flight. Recently, control barrier function (CBF) technique has been developed to provide …

Learning-based fast nonlinear model predictive control for custom-made 3D printed ground and aerial robots

M Mehndiratta, E Kayacan, S Patel, E Kayacan… - Handbook of Model …, 2019 - Springer
In this work, our goal is to use an online learning-based nonlinear model predictive control
(NMPC) for systems with uncertain and/or time-varying parameters. We have deployed it for …

Model predictive control for aerial collision avoidance in dynamic environments

M Castillo-Lopez, SA Sajadi-Alamdari… - … on Control and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous navigation in unknown environments populated by humans and other robots is
one of the main challenges when working with mobile robots. In this paper, we present a …

Improving the reliability of pick-and-place with aerial vehicles through fault-tolerant software and a custom magnetic end-effector

G Garimella, M Sheckells, S Kim… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial manipulation is an emerging field in robotics with various potential applications such
as transport and delivery, agriculture, and, infrastructure inspection. To deploy aerial …