A review of quadrotor: An underactuated mechanical system

BJ Emran, H Najjaran - Annual Reviews in Control, 2018 - Elsevier
This review concentrates on three main challenges of controlling a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) as an underactuated mechanical system (UMS). The challenges …

[HTML][HTML] A review on comparative remarks, performance evaluation and improvement strategies of quadrotor controllers

R Roy, M Islam, N Sadman, MAP Mahmud, KD Gupta… - Technologies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The quadrotor is an ideal platform for testing control strategies because of its non-linearity
and under-actuated configuration, allowing researchers to evaluate and verify control …

Neural network-based adaptive sliding mode control design for position and attitude control of a quadrotor UAV

H Razmi, S Afshinfar - Aerospace Science and technology, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel method is suggested for the position and attitude tracking control of a
quadrotor UAV in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbance. The …

Nonlinear robust adaptive tracking control of a quadrotor UAV via immersion and invariance methodology

B Zhao, B ** sliding-mode and cascade active disturbance rejection control for a quadrotor UAV
LX Xu, HJ Ma, D Guo, AH **e… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the robust trajectory tracking control problem of a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV). In order to guarantee the desired trajectory tracking performance in the …

Target tracking control of UAV through deep reinforcement learning

B Ma, Z Liu, W Zhao, J Yuan, H Long… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study presents an innovative reinforcement-learning-based control algorithm for a
vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft under wind disturbances. In our approach, the …

Deterministic policy gradient with integral compensator for robust quadrotor control

Y Wang, J Sun, H He, C Sun - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning-based robust control strategy for quadrotor
helicopters is proposed. The quadrotor is controlled by a learned neural network which …

Coordinated trajectory-tracking control of a marine aerial-surface heterogeneous system

N Wang, CK Ahn - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, for a marine aerial-surface heterogeneous (MASH) system composed by a
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) with …

Adaptive super-twisting non-singular terminal sliding mode control for tracking of quadrotor with bounded disturbances

H Ghadiri, M Emami, H Khodadadi - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
In this research, a novel adaptive non-singular terminal sliding mode control (ANTSMC) is
proposed for finite-time attitude and altitude tracking of aircraft system considering the …

Quadcopter robust adaptive second order sliding mode control based on PID sliding surface

HLNN Thanh, SK Hong - IEEE access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a robust adaptive second-order sliding mode controller that rejects external
disturbances and uncertainties to improve the tracking performance of attitude and altitude …