Transition nonlinear blended aerodynamic modeling and anti-harmonic disturbance robust control of fixed-wing tiltrotor UAV

J Liao, H Bang - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study proposed a novel nonlinear blended aerodynamic model for the tiltrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the transition phase to handle the high angle-of …

Autonomous Tail-Sitter Flights in Unknown Environments

G Lu, Y Ren, F Zhu, H Li, R Xue, Y Cai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory generation for fully autonomous flights of tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) presents substantial challenges due to their highly nonlinear aerodynamics. In this …

Lifting-wing quadcopter modeling and unified control

Q Quan, S Wang, W Gao - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
UNMANNED aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted lots of recent attention due to their
outstanding performances in many fields, such as aerial photography, precision farming …

Optimization-Based Control for a Large-Scale Electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing during an Aircraft's Vertical Take-Off and Landing Phase with Variable-Pitch …

L Duan, Y He, L Fan, W Qiu, G Wen, Y Xu - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
The UAV industry has witnessed an unprecedented boom in recent years. Among various
kinds of UAV platforms, the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with fixed-wing …

Adaptive continuous Quasi-Fixed-Time integral terminal sliding mode attitude control for BiFlying-Wings tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles during flight mode …

D Wang, Z Qiao, G Wu, J Xu, X Pei, Y Bai - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2025 - Elsevier
To address the attitude control problem of biplane tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles
(BFWTSUAV) during flight mode transitions, which are susceptible to various uncertainties …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate Tracking of Agile Trajectories for a Tail-Sitter UAV Under Wind Disturbances Environments

X Zou, Z Liu, Z Jia, B Wang - Drones, 2025 - mdpi.com
To achieve more robust and accurate tracking control of high maneuvering trajectories for a
tail-sitter fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating within its full envelope in …

TICOP: Time-critical Coordinated Planning for Fixed-Wing UAVs in Unknown Unstructured Environments

T Liu, X He, Y Niu, J Li, Z Li - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe coordination of fixed-wing UAVs in unstructured environments poses challenges due to
the intricate coupling of UAV cooperation, obstacle avoidance, and motion constraints. One …

Trajectory Tracking of Nonlinear Systems with Convex Input Constraints Based on Tracking Control Lyapunov Functions

Y Satoh - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Trajectory tracking control of input-constrained systems is an essential problem in many
control applications, including robotics. In this paper, we propose a constrained tracking …

Trajectory optimization of tail-sitter considering speed constraints

M Fan, F **e, T Ji, Y Zheng - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.08347, 2024 - arxiv.org
Tail-sitters, with the advantages of both the fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and
vertical take-off and landing UAVs, have been widely designed and researched in recent …

Trajectory Planning and Control for Differentially Flat Fixed-Wing Aerial Systems

L Morando, SA Salunkhe, N Bobbili, J Mao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Efficient real-time trajectory planning and control for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles is
challenging due to their non-holonomic nature, complex dynamics, and the additional …