Survey on unmanned aerial vehicle networks: A cyber physical system perspective

H Wang, H Zhao, J Zhang, D Ma, J Li… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are playing an important role in various areas due
to their agility and versatility, which have attracted significant attentions from both the …

Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles

V Kumar, N Michael - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
We survey the recent work on micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a fast-growing field
in robotics, outlining the opportunities for research and applications, along with the scientific …

A comparative study of nonlinear mpc and differential-flatness-based control for quadrotor agile flight

S Sun, A Romero, P Foehn, E Kaufmann… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate trajectory-tracking control for quadrotors is essential for safe navigation in cluttered
environments. However, this is challenging in agile flights due to nonlinear dynamics …

Accurate tracking of aggressive quadrotor trajectories using incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion and differential flatness

E Tal, S Karaman - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can execute aggressive (ie, high-speed
and high-acceleration) maneuvers have attracted significant attention in the past few years …

[PDF][PDF] Modelling and control of quadcopter

T Luukkonen - Independent research project in applied mathematics …, 2011 - academia.edu
Quadcopter, also known as quadrotor, is a helicopter with four rotors. The rotors are directed
upwards and they are placed in a square formation with equal distance from the center of …

A self-rotating, single-actuated UAV with extended sensor field of view for autonomous navigation

N Chen, F Kong, W Xu, Y Cai, H Li, D He, Y Qin… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) rely heavily on visual sensors to perceive obstacles and
explore environments. Current UAVs are limited in both perception capability and task …

Towards a swarm of agile micro quadrotors

A Kushleyev, D Mellinger, C Powers, V Kumar - Autonomous Robots, 2013 - Springer
We describe a prototype 75 g micro quadrotor with onboard attitude estimation and control
that operates autonomously with an external localization system. The motivation for …

Comprehensive simulation of quadrotor uavs using ros and gazebo

J Meyer, A Sendobry, S Kohlbrecher, U Klingauf… - … , and Programming for …, 2012 - Springer
Quadrotor UAVs have successfully been used both in research and for commercial
applications in recent years and there has been significant progress in the design of robust …

Introduction to feedback control of underactuated VTOLvehicles: A review of basic control design ideas and principles

MD Hua, T Hamel, P Morin… - IEEE Control systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is an introduction to feedback control design for a family of robotic aerial vehicles
with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities such as quadrotors, ducted-fan tail …

Model predictive quadrotor control: attitude, altitude and position experimental studies

K Alexis, G Nikolakopoulos, A Tzes - IET Control Theory & Applications, 2012 - IET
This study addresses the control problem of an unmanned quadrotor in an indoor
environment where there is lack of absolute localisation data. Based on an attached inertia …