Selecting and optimizing propulsion architecture is one of the most practical goals and the
most difficult decisions in designing modern commercial ships. That process faces several …

Reconfigurable multirotors (RMs) with flexible frames and integrated mechanical
compliance are increasingly explored to develop multifunctional aerial robots with high …

Autonomous microhelicopters will soon play a major role in tasks like search and rescue,
environment monitoring, security surveillance, and inspection. If they are further realized in …

A major limitation of existing battery-powered quadrotor UAVs is their reduced flight
endurance. To address this issue, by leveraging the electrical model of a brushless DC …

Abstract Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) are an emerging technology that is
suitable for multitude of applications requiring small sensor payloads including airborne …

The authors demonstrate the practical application of the adaptive high-gain extended
Kalman filter (EKF)(AEKF) onboard a quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The AEKF …

Fixed-pitch quadrotors are popular research and hobby platforms largely due to their
mechanical simplicity relative to other hovering aircraft. This simplicity, however, places …

This paper proposes a novel strategy to improve the performance and fault tolerance of multi-
rotor vehicles. The proposed strategy uses dual axis tilting propellers and thus enables three …

This paper presents estimation and control synthesis for an aerial manipulator to carry an
unknown payload. Online estimation is based on parametrization of the aerial manipulator …

This paper investigates the inspection-of-pipe topic in a new framework, by rotation around a
pipe, peculiar to industrial sites and refineries. The evolution of the ultimate system requires …