A comprehensive review on reconfigurable drones: Classification, characteristics, design and control technologies

SH Derrouaoui, Y Bouzid, M Guiatni, I Dib - Unmanned Systems, 2022 - World Scientific
Recently, reconfigurable drones have gained particular attention in the field of automation
and flying robots. Unlike the conventional drones, they are characterized by a variable …

Adaptive backstepping controller design of quadrotor biplane for payload delivery

N Dalwadi, D Deb, SM Muyeen - IET Intelligent Transport …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Performance of the UAVs for a particular application can be enhanced by hybrid design,
where take‐off, hover, and landing happen like rotary‐wing UAVs, and flies like fixed‐wing …

Robust fault-tolerant adaptive integral dynamic sliding mode control using finite-time disturbance observer for coaxial octorotor UAVs

J Sanwale, S Dahiya, P Trivedi, M Kothari - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the dynamics modeling of coaxial octorotor UAVs is described taking into
account the majority of uncertain factors such as actuator faults, parametric deviations, and …

A model predictive control (MPC) approach on unit quaternion orientation based quadrotor for trajectory tracking

M Islam, M Okasha, E Sulaeman - International Journal of Control …, 2019 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to introduce with a quaternion orientation based quadrotor that
can be controlled by Model Predictive Control (MPC). As MPC offers promising performance …

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations

Y Govdeli, SMB Muzaffar, R Raj, B Elhadidi… - Aerospace Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics model is coupled with a three degree of freedom
quadplane to control the forward and backward transition between hover and steady level …

[HTML][HTML] Transition control of a tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle with L1 neural network adaptive control

J Zhong, W Chen, H Zhang - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2023 - Elsevier
The main task of this work is to design a control system for a small tail-sitter Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) during the transition process. Although reasonable control …

Systematic design methodology for development and flight testing of a variable pitch quadrotor biplane VTOL UAV for payload delivery

VS Chipade, M Kothari, RR Chaudhari - Mechatronics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the conceptual design and proof-of-concept flight demonstration of a
novel variable pitch quadrotor biplane Unmanned Aerial Vehicle concept for payload …

[HTML][HTML] Biplane trajectory tracking using hybrid controller based on backstepping and integral terminal sliding mode control

N Dalwadi, D Deb, JJ Rath - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
A biplane quadrotor is a hybrid type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that has advantages
of both fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs. In this study, we design controllers using (i) …

Flight control of sliding arm quadcopter with dynamic structural parameters

R Kumar, AM Deshpande, JZ Wells… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The conceptual design and flight controller of a novel kind of quadcopter are presented. This
design is capable of morphing the shape of the UAV during flight to achieve position and …

Attitude control of novel tail sitter: Swiveling biplane–quadrotor

N Raj, R Banavar, Abhishek, M Kothari - Journal of Guidance, Control …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
VERTICAL takeoff and landing capable hybrid vehicles are gaining interest due to their
unique ability to hover like a rotorcraft and fly efficiently long distances like a fixed-wing …