The unmanned aerial vehicles or drones come in a great diversity depending upon the basic
frameworks with their particular specifications. The purpose of this study is to analyse the …

This paper presents a literature survey on aerial manipulation. First of all, an extensive study
of aerial vehicles and manipulation/interaction mechanisms in aerial manipulation is …

Autopilot systems are typically composed of an “inner loop” providing stability and control,
whereas an “outer loop” is responsible for mission-level objectives, such as way-point …

As one of the tiniest flying objects, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often expanded as
the “swarm” to execute missions. In this article, we investigate the multiquadcopter and …

Time-varying formation tracking analysis and design problems for second-order Multi-Agent
systems with switching interaction topologies are studied, where the states of the followers …

In this paper, a novel nonlinear control strategy along with its simulation for a quadrotor
helicopter is proposed. The normal 6-DOF dynamic model of the quadrotor based on the …

A method based on second order sliding mode control (2-SMC) is proposed to design
controllers for a small quadrotor UAV. For the switching sliding manifold design, the …

Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an unstable system, so it needs to be
controlled efficiently and intelligently. Moreover, due to its non-linear, coupled, and under …

Robotic vehicles (RVs), such as drones and ground rovers, are a type of cyber-physical
systems that operate in the physical world under the control of computing components in the …

This brief describes the application of direct and indirect model reference adaptive control to
a lightweight low-cost quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle platform. A baseline trajectory …