A detailed survey and future directions of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) with potential applications

N Elmeseiry, N Alshaer, T Ismail - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained
widespread interest in civilian and military applications, which has led to the development of …

Novel closed-loop deployable mechanisms and integrated support trusses for planar antennas of synthetic aperture radar

Q Meng, F **e, R Tang, XJ Liu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is indispensable electronic equipment in modern life, which
has been widely used in the field of geological exploration, disaster monitoring, and …

Resiliency in Space Autonomy: a Review

A Banerjee, M Mukherjee, S Satpute… - Current Robotics …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review: The article provides an extensive overview on the resilient
autonomy advances made across various missions, orbital or deep-space, that captures the …

A Novel Morphing Quadrotor UAV with Sarrus-Linkage-Based Reconfigurable Frame

Y Wang, C Liu, K Zhang - 2024 6th International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nature provides a repertoire of flyers demonstrating dynamic maneuvering during flight by
effectively using their morphological changes, thus adapting to environmental variability …

Error feedback method (EFM) based dimension synthesis optimisation for four-bar linkage mechanism

K Zhang, M Yang, Y Zhang, Q Huang - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we propose an error-feedback method (EFM) for constraint handling of the path-
generation problem, which replaces the traditional penalty-functional method. Moreover, it …

[HTML][HTML] Peregrine Falcon: Design and Experimentation of a Folding and Launchable Quadcopter Drone

G Wu, X Pei, D Wang, L Nan, D Wang, H Zhou, Y Bai - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
This article describes a quadcopter drone with foldable arms, which we have named the
Peregrine Falcon. It can take off from a moving vehicle by barrel launching and perform its …

Conceptual design for a multi-rotor UAV based on variable paddle pitch

Z Qin, X Tang, Z Meng, YT Wu, SK Lyu… - Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Springer
The field of unmanned aerial vehicles has experienced a “golden era” of progress in recent
years (UAV). UAVs come in a vast variety, from the commercial to the military sectors. The …

Geometry aware nmpc scheme for morphing quadrotor navigation in restricted entrances

A Papadimitriou, SS Mansouri… - 2021 European …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geometry-morphing Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are gaining more attention lately, since,
their ability to modify their geometric morphology in-flight increases their versatility while …

[HTML][HTML] Launchable rotary wing UAV designs and launch mechanism designs for rotary wing UAV

E Gokbel, S Ersoy - Journal of Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence in …, 2021 - extrica.com
In recent years, rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles have been used in many areas.
Rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can carry different payloads according to their …

Rapid and Reversible Morphing to Enable Multifunctionality in Robots

BT Wilcox, J Joyce, MD Bartlett - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biological organisms are extraordinary in their ability to change physical form to perform
different functions. Mimicking these capabilities in engineered systems has the potential to …