Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly being used for underwater survey
and exploration missions. The expanding mission scope for AUVs highlights the need for a …

Precision Aerial Delivery Systems: Modeling, Dynamics, and Control provides an overview
of the recent developments in precision aerial cargo delivery from the standpoint of …

This paper proposes a real time control algorithm for autonomous operation of a quadrotor
unmanned air vehicle. The quadrotor is a small agile vehicle, which as well as being a …

Powered parafoil is a kind of flexible wing vehicle, which is composed of traditional parafoil
system and power plant. Considering the relative motion of canopy and payload, two …

This paper investigates a difficult problem of path-following control for parafoil dynamic
systems in time-varying wind disturbance. A common representation of a parafoil dynamic …

The invention of the steerable, gliding, ram-air parafoil enabled the possibility of precision,
autonomous aerial payload delivery. Research and development work on guided airdrop …

Space Rider is the European program proposed to develop an affordable and sustainable
reusable space transportation system to enable access to and return from space. To procure …

Trajectory optimization is essential for all unmanned aerial vehicles, especially the parafoil
delivery system, as the optimized trajectory must be practical and realizable. However, with …

This paper addresses a challenging problem to achieve energy-saving autonomous homing
to the desired target for a parafoil/rocket system with high-altitude. The system is subject to …

GUIDED parafoils are providing improved capability in performing a diverse set of military
and civilian missions, such as precision airdrop, reconnaissance, troop resupply, and …