A review on recent development of multirotor UAV fault-tolerant control systems

M Saied, H Shraim, C Francis - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past decades have witnessed an increase in the use of multirotor unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs). This has led the way to the development of fault-tolerant control (FTC) …

Statistical residual-based time series methods for multicopter fault detection and identification

A Dutta, M McKay, F Kopsaftopoulos… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents the introduction, investigation, and critical assessment of three data-
driven statistical residual-based time series methods for rotor fault detection and …

[PDF][PDF] Fault classification and diagnosis of UAV motor based on estimated nonlinear parameter of steady-state model

J Lee, W Lee, S Ko, H Oh - Int. J. Mech. Eng. Robot. Res, 2020‏ - ijmerr.com
UAVs are now applied to various fields, from military missions to civilian applications. A
malfunction in the drone's thrust system during flights can result in collisions and damages of …

Structural reconfigurability analysis of multirotor UAVs after actuator failures

D Vey, J Lunze - 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents a reconfigurability analysis of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) with four and six rotors. A method for structural reconfigurability analysis is …

Hexacopter fault tolerant actuator allocation analysis for optimal thrust

CD Pose, JI Giribet, AS Ghersin - … International Conference on …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, it was shown that an hexagon shaped hexarotor vehicle with tilted rotors, is
capable of fault tolerant attitude and altitude control. In this work, we propose a strategy to …

Machine-learning based rotor fault diagnosis in a multicopter with strain data

A Dutta, R Niemiec, F Kopsaftopoulos, F Gandhi - AIAA Journal, 2023‏ - arc.aiaa.org
An innovative machine-learning-based probabilistic framework for online rotor fault
diagnosis in multicopters is presented. The proposed scheme employs in-flight out-of-plane …

Stabilizing and control of tilting-rotor quadcopter in case of a propeller failure

A Nemati, R Kumar, M Kumar - Dynamic systems …, 2016‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, stability and control of tilting-rotor quadcopters is presented upon failure of one
propeller during flight. A tilting rotor quadcopter provides advantage in terms of additional …

Multicopter fault detection and identification via data-driven statistical learning methods

A Dutta, ME McKay, F Kopsaftopoulos, F Gandhi - AIAA Journal, 2022‏ - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents the introduction, investigation, and critical assessment of three data-
driven methods for rotor failure detection and identification in a multicopter. These methods …

Design and trajectory control of universal drone system

Ş Yıldırım, N Çabuk, V Bakırcıoğlu - Measurement, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, a new universal drone design is proposed to be used in different applications.
The drone system has a variable number of rotors from four to twelve with portable arms. As …

Visual servoing for an autonomous hexarotor using a neural network based PID controller

C Lopez-Franco, J Gomez-Avila, AY Alanis… - Sensors, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention.
However, we face two major drawbacks when working with UAVs: high nonlinearities and …