Nowadays, with the increasing popularity of quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles in
several real-world applications, achieving a fully autonomous quadcopter flight has become …

The use of delivery services is an increasing trend worldwide, further enhanced by the
COVID pandemic. In this context, drone delivery systems are of great interest as they may …

Many aerial robotic applications require the ability to land on moving platforms, such as
delivery trucks and marine research boats. We present a method to autonomously land an …

This paper presents a state-of-the-art tethered unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV) for structural
integrity assessment of underground stone mine pillars. The TUAV, powered by its tether …

Unmanned aerial vehicles, especially quadcopters, play key roles in many real-world
applications and the related quadcopter autonomous control algorithms have attracted a …

“Flight Time” and the “Scope of the mission” play major roles in using UAVs as they affect
most industrial activities. Once the battery has depleted, the UAV has to land on the ground …

Quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles have become increasingly popular for various real-
world applications, and a significant body of literature exists regarding the improvement of …

This letter presents a method for the precise cable-guided landing of tethered drones. The
proposed approach is based on a continuous velocity vector field that relies on the tether …

Guidance path-planning and following are two core technologies used for controlling un-
manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in both military and civilian applications. However, only a …

This paper proposes an approach for localization of tethered drones using information from
the shape of the tether and the vehicles' inertial data. Our approach relies on the fact that, in …