A review of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles: applications, architectural design and control algorithms

M Idrissi, M Salami, F Annaz - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022‏ - Springer
Over the past decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received a significant
attention due to their diverse capabilities for non-combatant and military applications. The …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

Past, present, and future of aerial robotic manipulators

A Ollero, M Tognon, A Suarez, D Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article analyzes the evolution and current trends in aerial robotic manipulation,
comprising helicopters, conventional underactuated multirotors, and multidirectional thrust …

The foldable drone: A morphing quadrotor that can squeeze and fly

D Falanga, K Kleber, S Mintchev… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have
significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, map**, and …

A survey on load transportation using multirotor UAVs

DKD Villa, AS Brandao, M Sarcinelli-Filho - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020‏ - Springer
Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the
robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial …

MPC flight control for a tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft

L Bauersfeld, L Spannagl, GJJ Ducard… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a model predictive control (MPC) controller and its novel application to
a hybrid tilt-quadrotor fixed-wing aircraft, which combines vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) …

Active interaction force control for contact-based inspection with a fully actuated aerial vehicle

K Bodie, M Brunner, M Pantic, S Walser… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents and validates active interaction force control and planning for fully
actuated and omnidirectional aerial manipulation platforms, with the goal of aerial contact …

Position and attitude control of multi-rotor aerial vehicles: A survey

TP Nascimento, M Saska - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Motion control theory applied to multi-rotor aerial vehicles (MAVs) has gained attention with
the recent increase in the processing power of computers, which are now able to perform the …

6D interaction control with aerial robots: The flying end-effector paradigm

M Ryll, G Muscio, F Pierri, E Cataldi… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a novel paradigm for physical interactive tasks in aerial robotics
allowing reliability to be increased and weight and costs to be reduced compared with state …

Impact of UAV rotation on MIMO channel characterization for air-to-ground communication systems

Z Ma, B Ai, R He, G Wang, Y Niu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been considered as one of the
promising technologies to support numerous applications in the fifth and sixth generations …