Aerial manipulation aims at combining the versatility and the agility of some aerial platforms
with the manipulation capabilities of robotic arms. This letter tries to collect the results …

We present a tutorial introduction to the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, often simply
referred as drones. We first explain typical configuration, components and construction of the …

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 …

This paper presents a nonlinear controller for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that exploits a measurement optical flow to enable hover …

The dynamics of a quadrotor are a simplified form of helicopter dynamics that exhibit the
same basic problems of underactuation, strong coupling, multi-input/multi-output design …

An image-based visual servo control is presented for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
capable of stationary or quasi-stationary flight with the camera mounted onboard the vehicle …

This paper addresses the problem of designing and experimentally validating a controller for
steering a quadrotor vehicle along a trajectory, while rejecting constant force disturbances …

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming popular among researchers and vital
platforms for several autonomous mission systems. In this paper, we present the design and …

This paper proposes a feedback control strategy to let the dynamics of a class of under-
actuated vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial vehicle tracking a desired position and …

The dynamic model of a UAV with an attached robotic arm is derived in a symbolic matrix
form through the Euler-Lagrangian formalism. A Cartesian impedance control, which …