Configurations, flight mechanisms, and applications of unmanned aerial systems: A review

S Darvishpoor, J Roshanian, A Raissi… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) have a variety of applications in our daily life that
have attracted the attention of many researchers around the world. There are a variety of …

Finite-time path following control for a stratospheric airship with input saturation and error constraint

Z Zheng, L Xie - International Journal of Control, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the finite-time path following control problem for an under-actuated
stratospheric airship with input saturation, error constraint, and external disturbances. To …

Fast real-time control allocation applied to over-actuated quadrotor tilt-rotor

MF Santos, LM Honório, APGM Moreira… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a novel light-weighted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an over-
actuated tilt-rotor quadrotor with an innovative control allocation technique, named as Fast …

Revised semi-empirical aerodynamic estimation for modelling flight dynamics of an airship

S Suvarna, H Chung, A Sinha, RS Pant - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Modelling of dynamics of an airship is essential in the prediction of the flight characteristics,
stability analysis and the design of control laws for autonomous operation. In the dynamics …

Review of autonomous outdoor blimps and their applications

SS Bhat, SG Anavatti, M Garratt… - Drone Systems and …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Autonomous blimps have potential applications in surveillance, monitoring, and advertising.
Due to their lower payload capacities and possible unstable flight profile, small blimps have …

Flight control of a hexa-rotor airship: Uncertainty quantification for a range of temperature and pressure conditions

DA Dos Santos, A Cunha Jr - ISA transactions, 2019 - Elsevier
The present paper is concerned with the dynamic modeling and design of control laws for a
small non-rigid multi-rotor airship constituted of an oblate-spheroid helium balloon coupled …

Modelling and system identification of uninhabited airship with a slung payload

O Obeid, E Lanteigne - Multibody System Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
This paper discusses modelling of a multibody system consisting of airship, gondola, and a
slung payload. Lighter-than-air vehicles undergo inertial forces that are often neglected in …

Real-time scan matching for indoor mapping with a drone

A Alsayed, MR Nabawy, A Yunusa-Kaltungo… - AIAA SCITECH 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0268. vid This paper aims to
develop a method to mainly determine the 2D planar position of an aerial robot using just …

Dynamic modelling of multi-body unmanned airship with a slung-payload

O Obeid, E Lanteigne - 2022 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) provide a conve-nient way to conduct experiments and
simulations at a low cost. After a long period of being relinquished, interest in airships has …

Multi-body modelling and adaptive control of a re-configurable uninhabited airship

G Tuta-Navajas, E Lanteigne - Drone Systems and …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
This paper presents pitch control of an uninhabited airship using changes in center of
gravity. Changes in center of gravity are achieved by controlling the position of a movable …