Position and attitude control of multi-rotor aerial vehicles: A survey

TP Nascimento, M Saska - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
Motion control theory applied to multi-rotor aerial vehicles (MAVs) has gained attention with
the recent increase in the processing power of computers, which are now able to perform the …

The MRS UAV system: Pushing the frontiers of reproducible research, real-world deployment, and education with autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles

T Baca, M Petrlik, M Vrba, V Spurny, R Penicka… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control and estimation system for
supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We …

Uncertainty and disturbance estimator-based global trajectory tracking control for a quadrotor

Q Lu, B Ren, S Parameswaran - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE) based global trajectory
tracking control strategy for a quadrotor. The main contribution of this article is the fusion of …

Robust tracking control of a quadrotor UAV based on adaptive sliding mode controller

T Huang, D Huang, Z Wang, A Shah - Complexity, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a robust adaptive sliding mode control scheme is developed for attitude and
altitude tracking of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system under the …

A novel robust observer-based nonlinear trajectory tracking control strategy for quadrotors

H Hua, Y Fang, X Zhang, B Lu - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel robust observer-based nonlinear control approach is proposed for
quadrotors with unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances, wherein the tracking errors …

Development and application of a novel high-order fully actuated system approach—Part I: 3-DOF quadrotor control

S Lu, K Tsakalis, Y Chen - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quadrotor hierarchical control design (position-attitude) based on the state-space
modeling has been widely applied in the past. Although the state-space representation …

Path planning and control of a quadrotor UAV based on an improved APF using parallel search

T Huang, D Huang, N Qin, Y Li - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Control and path planning are two essential and challenging issues in quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV). In this paper, an approach for moving around the nearest obstacle is …

Generic adaptive sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV system subject to severe parametric uncertainties and fully unknown external disturbance

T Huang, D Huang, Z Wang, X Dai, A Shah - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
This paper aims to provide a generic robust controller that is able to manipulate all kinds of
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems automatically or adaptively in the …

Fault estimation and fault tolerant control strategies applied to VTOL aerial vehicles with soft and aggressive actuator faults

G Ortiz-Torres, P Castillo, FDJ Sorcia-Vázquez… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Actuator Fault Estimation (FE) and Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) strategies designed with
model-based observers for Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aerial vehicles are …

A robust fault diagnosis for quad-rotors: A sliding-mode observer approach

R Falcón, H Ríos, A Dzul - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the design of a fault diagnosis strategy to deal with faults in multiple
actuators in a quad-rotor under the influence of external disturbances. The faults are …