This article reviews the state-of-the-art modeling and control techniques for aerial robots
such as quadrotor systems and presents several future research directions in this area. The …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a wide range of interesting military and commercial
applications at reduced costs. A couple of their more interesting characteristics include: They …

The problem of controlling the quadrotor orientation and position is considered in the
presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. Previous works generally …

The attitude control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is investigated. The aim of
this paper is to develop a continuous multivariable attitude control law, which drives the …

This paper provides new results for the tracking control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV). The UAV has four input degrees of freedom, namely the magnitudes of the …

Standard quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) possess a limited mobility because of
their inherent underactuation, that is, availability of four independent control inputs (the four …

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 …

The constrained control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging task due to
their nonlinear and underactuacted dynamics. This brief focuses on the position control of a …

The application of rotorcraft to autonomous load carrying and transport is a new frontier for
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This task requires that hovering vehicles remain stable …

A major limitation of existing battery-powered quadrotor UAVs is their reduced flight
endurance. To address this issue, by leveraging the electrical model of a brushless DC …