Unmanned aerial vehicles: Control methods and future challenges

Z Zuo, C Liu, QL Han, J Song - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of computer technology, automatic control technology and
communication technology, research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted …

A Survey of Optimal Control Allocation for Aerial Vehicle Control

TM Blaha, EJJ Smeur, BDW Remes - Actuators, 2023 - mdpi.com
In vehicle control, control allocation is often used to abstract control variables from actuators,
simplifying controller design and enhancing performance. Surveying available literature …

Sequential manipulation planning for over-actuated unmanned aerial manipulators

Y Su, J Li, Z Jiao, M Wang, C Chu, H Li… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the sequential manipulation planning problem for unmanned aerial
manipulators (UAMs). Unlike prior work that primarily focuses on one-step manipulation …

Fault-tolerant control of an overactuated uav platform built on quadcopters and passive hinges

Y Su, P Yu, MJ Gerber, L Ruan… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Propeller failure is a major cause of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) crashes.
While conventional multirotor systems struggle to address this issue due to underactuation …

Compensating aerodynamics of over-actuated multi-rotor aerial platform with data-driven iterative learning control

P Yu, Y Su, L Ruan, TC Tsao - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of over-actuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is significantly
influenced by aerodynamic effects, as they are subject to different airflow conditions. For …

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 …

A fast and efficient attitude control algorithm of a tilt-rotor aerial platform using inputs redundancies

Y Su, L Ruan, P Yu, CH Pi, MJ Gerber… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Overactuated multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) usually consist of multiple tiltable
thrust actuators. The controllers are mostly designed by regarding the thrust forces and …

Downwash-aware control allocation for over-actuated uav platforms

Y Su, C Chu, M Wang, J Li, L Yang… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking position and orientation independently affords more agile maneuver for over-
actuated multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) while introducing undesired …

Fault-tolerant attitude control incorporating reconfiguration control allocation for supersonic tailless aircraft

J Cong, J Hu, Y Wang, Z He, L Han, M Su - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a fault-tolerant attitude control scheme, incorporating reconfiguration
control allocation for supersonic tailless aircraft subject to nonlinear characteristics, actuator …

Flight structure optimization of modular reconfigurable uavs

Y Su, Z Jiao, Z Zhang, J Zhang, H Li, M Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) designed to reconfigure a large group of
modular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), each with different weights and inertia …