[PDF][PDF] A review of rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developments and applications in civil engineering

P Liu, AY Chen, YN Huang, JY Han, JS Lai… - Smart Struct …, 2014 - academia.edu
Civil engineers always face the challenge of uncertainty in planning, building, and
maintaining infrastructure. These works rely heavily on a variety of surveying and monitoring …

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 …

A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs

A Gautam, PB Sujit, S Saripalli - 2014 international conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Landing an aerial vehicle is a very challenging problem. Pilots spend numerous hours
practicing touchdowns because of the risk involved during landing phase. Develo** …

Autonomous quadcopter landing on a moving target

A Gautam, M Singh, PB Sujit, S Saripalli - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Autonomous landing on a moving target is challenging because of external disturbances
and localization errors. In this paper, we present a vision-based guidance technique with a …

A reinforcement learning approach for autonomous control and landing of a quadrotor

MB Vankadari, K Das, C Shinde… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper looks into the problem of precise autonomous landing of an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) which is considered to be a difficult problem as one has to generate …

An application of interval type-2 fuzzy model based control system for generic aircraft

DJ Singh, NK Verma, AK Ghosh… - Applied Soft …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a design application of Interval Type-2 (IT2) Takagi–Sugeno (T–S)​
Fuzzy Model Based (FMB) control system for generic aircraft. The IT2 T–S FMB flight control …

Automatic landing system design using sliding mode control

DV Rao, TH Go - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents the application of sliding mode control technique for the design of a
nonlinear aircraft controller to execute autonomous landing maneuvers. Complete aircraft …

Aircraft longitudinal motion control based on Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model

P Hušek, K Narenathreyas - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
Fuzzy logic control of longitudinal motion of an aircraft based on Takagi–Sugeno modelling
approach is presented in this paper. Takagi–Sugeno model of the motion along the desired …

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 …

Predator-prey pigeon-inspired optimization for UAV ALS longitudinal parameters tuning

H Duan, M Huo, Z Yang, Y Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a predator-prey pigeon-inspired optimization (PPPIO) algorithm for an
automatic landing system of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the longitudinal …