Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles: a review

F Ahmed, JC Mohanta, A Keshari, PS Yadav - Arabian Journal for Science …, 2022 - Springer
In recent decades, aerial robots especially small UAVs and drones have witnessed
tremendous improvements in terms of their structure, working methodology, flying features …

Review of designs and flight control techniques of hybrid and convertible VTOL UAVs

GJJ Ducard, M Allenspach - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a broad perspective and analysis of the work done in control of hybrid
and convertible unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the main existing designs. These flying …

MPC flight control for a tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft

L Bauersfeld, L Spannagl, GJJ Ducard… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a model predictive control (MPC) controller and its novel application to
a hybrid tilt-quadrotor fixed-wing aircraft, which combines vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) …

Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

[HTML][HTML] Control techniques of tilt rotor unmanned aerial vehicle systems: A review

Z Liu, Y He, L Yang, J Han - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2017 - Elsevier
The tilt rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (TRUAV) exhibits special application value due to its
unique rotor structure. However, varying dynamics and aerodynamic interference caused by …

[HTML][HTML] A review of aerial manipulation of small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems

D **lun, GUO Pin, XU Kun, YU Yushu - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2019 - Elsevier
Small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems (SRURSs) are a kind of unmanned
rotorcraft with manipulating devices. This review aims to provide an overview on aerial …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear model predictive control and guidance for a propeller-tilting hybrid unmanned air vehicle

M Allenspach, GJJ Ducard - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
Hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide an interesting combination of the vertical
takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities of rotary-wing (RW) and of the efficient forward flight …

Robust model predictive flight control of unmanned rotorcrafts

K Alexis, C Papachristos, R Siegwart, A Tzes - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
This paper addresses the problem of robust flight control of unmanned rotorcrafts, by
proposing and experimentally evaluating a real–time robust model predictive control …

Recent developments in aerial robotics: A survey and prototypes overview

CF Liew, D DeLatte, N Takeishi, T Yairi - arxiv preprint arxiv:1711.10085, 2017 - arxiv.org
In recent years, research and development in aerial robotics (ie, unmanned aerial vehicles,
UAVs) has been growing at an unprecedented speed, and there is a need to summarize the …

Embedded model predictive control of unmanned micro aerial vehicles

T Baca, G Loianno, M Saska - 2016 21st international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a lightweight embedded system for stabilization and control of Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and particularly Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). The system relies …