This paper proposes a unified controller based on an Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic
Inversion (INDI) for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) transition aircraft configurations. The …

Enabling vertical take-off and landing while pro-viding the ability to fly long ranges opens the
door to a wide range of new real-world aircraft applications while improving many existing …

System identification methods have played an essential role in the research and industry
projects at the Institute of Flight System Dynamics of the Technical University of Munich …

I recent times, implementation of nonlinear control techniques for control of novel multi-rotor
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configurations has picked up momentum [1–4]. Nonlinear …

In this paper, we propose an immersion and invariance-based sliding mode controller for a
tilt tri-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle subjects to parameter perturbation, unmodeled …

This paper proposes a novel adaptive control structure featured by large closed-loop
bandwidth and satisfactory parameter estimation results. The proposed baseline control …

1 ηl, ηr= Left and right elevon deflection, rad CX, t= Total aerodynamic force coefficient in
axial direction CY, t= Total aerodynamic force coefficient in lateral direction CZ, t= Total …

Existing control allocation approaches usually minimize an L 1 or L 2 norm of the actuator
commands that is loosely related to the thrust produced or the aerodynamic drag. This paper …

The field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has grown in the last years, showing its utility
in broader applications. For instance, in surveillance, precision agriculture, pack delivery …

We present a uniform control approach for transitioning vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
The approach combines several well-understood linear techniques, including robust …