The objective of this work is to achieve real time tracking of power conductors using a
Quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). Two solutions are proposed. For the first solution …

Project AURORA aims at the development of unmanned robotic airships capable of
autonomous flight over user‐defined locations for aerial inspection and environmental …

This work introduces a hybrid visual servoing technique for differentially flat, underactuated
systems that is well suited for aggressive dynamics. Standard Position-Based Visual …

In the present paper, an image-based visual servoing scheme is presented for a road
following task with an autonomous airship. A new set of visual signals is introduced, namely …

Scientific research and development on the control of autonomous airship have shown a
significant growth in recent years. New applications appear in the areas such as freight …

Robotic UAVs have an enormous potential as observation and data-gathering platforms for
a wide variety of applications. Robotic airships, in particular, are of great interest for …

The work developed and presented in this thesis focuses on the design, validation and
comparison of different nonlinear control solutions allowing an airship to navigate …

For small robotic airships, it is required that the airship should be capable of following a
predefined track. In this paper, computer vision-based navigation and optimal fuzzy control …

The trajectory tracking problem of autonomous lighter than air vehicles in the presence of
wind gusts is studied in this paper. The airship is represented as one point which is its center …

This article addresses the problem of visual line following for aerial robotic vehicles,
considering an airship as platform. Previous work showed that targets characterized by three …