A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are mainly used by military and government
organizations, but with low-cost sensors, electronics, and airframes there is significant …

With the exponential growth of numerous drone operations ranging from infrastructure
monitoring to even package delivery services, the integration of UAS in the smart city …

The paper addresses the flight control of a quad-rotor subject to two dimensional unknown
static/varying wind disturbances. A model separation is proposed to simplify the control of …

In this article, a multilayered and distributed architecture for mission-oriented miniature fixed-
wing UAV swarms is presented. Based on the concept of modularity, the proposed …

Path following is the simplest desired autonomous navigation capability for UAVs. Several
approaches have been developed in the literature for path following. However, there is no …

In this article, we propose coordinating guiding vector fields to achieve two tasks
simultaneously with a team of robots: first, the guidance and navigation of multiple robots to …

A three-dimensional nonlinear guidance law for path-following is proposed using differential
geometry of space curves. The proposed guidance law makes a vehicle converge to and …

In this paper, we provide a review of the principal aspects related to search & rescue (SAR)
with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with particular interest in the phase of post‐disaster …

This article proposes an adaptive path-following controller of small fixed-wing unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of wind disturbances, which explicitly considers that …