A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

J Aguilar, T Zhang, F Qian, M Kingsbury… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Discovery of fundamental principles which govern and limit effective locomotion (self-
propulsion) is of intellectual interest and practical importance. Human technology has …

Control schemes for quadrotor UAV: taxonomy and survey

A Khalid, Z Mushtaq, S Arif, K Zeb, MA Khan… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an unstable system, so it needs to be
controlled efficiently and intelligently. Moreover, due to its non-linear, coupled, and under …

Vision-based target detection and localization via a team of cooperative UAV and UGVs

S Minaeian, J Liu, YJ Son - IEEE Transactions on systems, man …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned vehicles (UVs) play a key role in autonomous surveillance scenarios. A major
task needed by these UVs in undertaking autonomous patrol missions is to detect the targets …

System for deployment of groups of unmanned micro aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments using onboard visual relative localization

M Saska, T Baca, J Thomas, J Chudoba, L Preucil… - Autonomous …, 2017 - Springer
A complex system for control of swarms of micro aerial vehicles (MAV), in literature also
called as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), stabilized via …

Swarm distribution and deployment for cooperative surveillance by micro-aerial vehicles

M Saska, V Vonásek, J Chudoba, J Thomas… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
The task of cooperative surveillance of pre-selected Areas of Interest (AoI) in outdoor
environments by groups of closely cooperating Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is tackled in …

Vision-based detection and distance estimation of micro unmanned aerial vehicles

F Gökçe, G Üçoluk, E Şahin, S Kalkan - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Detection and distance estimation of micro unmanned aerial vehicles (mUAVs) is crucial for
(i) the detection of intruder mUAVs in protected environments;(ii) sense and avoid purposes …

Smooth second-order sliding mode control for fully actuated multirotor aerial vehicles

JA Ricardo Jr, DA Santos - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper is concerned with the robust and smooth attitude-position tracking control
of fully actuated multirotor aerial vehicles equipped with fixed rotors and subject to matched …

Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones

RN Akram, K Markantonakis, K Mayes… - 2017 IEEE/AIAA 36th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interconnected everyday objects, either via public or private networks, are gradually
becoming reality in modern life—often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) or Cyber …

Interactive leader–follower consensus of multiple quadrotors based on composite nonlinear feedback control

Z Hou, I Fantoni - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an interactive leader-follower configuration of multiple quadrotors is
considered, which means that the leaders can react with respect to the followers. In order to …

A survey on the formation control of multiple quadrotors

Z Hou, W Wang, G Zhang, C Han - 2017 14th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we try to show the state of the art on the formation control of multiple
quadrotors. From the literature, we summarize some most interested issues such as …