A review of UAV platforms for autonomous applications: comprehensive analysis and future directions

MA Tahir, I Mir, TU Islam - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles have evolved rapidly in the recent past for their widespread
utilization for both commercial and military purposes. It is extremely desirable while …

Control algorithms, Kalman estimation and near actual simulation for UAVs: state of art perspective

MA Tahir, I Mir, TU Islam - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The pervasive use of unmanned aerial vehicles for both commercial and military operations
has undergone rapid development in the recent past. When designing unmanned aerial …

Barrier function adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode control approach for quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles

KA Alattas, O Mofid, AK Alanazi, HM Abo-Dief… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a barrier function adaptive non-singular terminal sliding mode
controller for a six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) quad-rotor in the existence of matched …

Back-step** fault-tolerant control for morphing aircraft based on fixed-time observer

X Liang, Q Wang, B Xu, C Dong - International Journal of Control …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, the problem of the back-step** fault-tolerant control (FTC) based on fixed-
time observer is addressed for the morphing aircraft with model uncertainties, external …

Flocking of multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics and heterogeneous virtual leader

T Yan, X Xu, Z Li, E Li - International Journal of Control, Automation and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper investigates the flocking control of multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear
dynamics while the virtual leader information is heterogeneous. The uncertain nonlinearity …

[HTML][HTML] A novel adaptive coordinated tracking control scheme for a morphing aircraft with telescopic wings

W Enmei, LU Hao, J Zhang, W Chenliang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspired by flight biology, morphing flight technology has great potential to improve the
adaptability and maneuverability of aircraft. This paper is devoted to the flight control …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments and future prospects in collision avoidance control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A review

MH Harun, SS Abdullah, MSM Aras… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - pubs2.ascee.org
The industry has been significantly enhanced by recent developments in UAV collision
avoidance systems. They made collision avoidance controllers for self-driving drones both …

[HTML][HTML] Minimum energy control of quadrotor UAV: Synthesis and performance analysis of control system with neurobiologically inspired intelligent controller (BELBIC …

W Giernacki - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is a strong trend in the development of control systems for multi-rotor unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), where minimization of a control signal effort is conducted to extend the …

Geometric reduced-attitude control of fixed-wing uavs

EM Coates, TI Fossen - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Although the focus in this article is on unmanned aerial vehicles, the
geometric reduced-attitude controllers presented apply to all fixed-wing aircraft with fully …

Fraction-order MRAC method based fault tolerant control for plant protection UAV with actuator failure and uncertainty

X Yang, X Hu, H Ye, W Liu, H Shen - International Journal of Control …, 2023 - Springer
Due to high efficiency operation capability and no special site requirement for landing and
taking off, plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely used in …