This article aims at collecting and discussing the results reached by the research community
regarding the study of the ground effect on small rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles …

Recent advances in design, sensing and control have led to aerial robots that offer great
promise in a range of real-world applications. However, one critical open question centres …

Covers PID control systems from the very basics to the advanced topics This book covers the
design, implementation and automatic tuning of PID control systems with operational …

This paper analyzes the ground effect in multirotors, that is, the change in the thrust
generated by the rotors when flying close to the ground due to the interaction of the rotor …

Results are presented that quantify how velocity and attitude estimates can benefit from an
improvement to the traditional quadrotor dynamic model. The improved model allows …

This paper presents a solution to on-board trajectory tracking control of quadrotors. The
proposed approach combines the standard hierarchical control paradigm that separates the …

Multicopters are attracting more and more attention these years. In the design stage,
designers and users wonder if an assembled multicopter can meet their performance …

Quadcopters are attracting a growing interest in many applications such as cargo delivery or
surfaces inspection. These applications are often subjected to flights in the proximity of walls …

In this paper, the development and experimental validation of a novel double two-loop
nonlinear controller based on adaptive neural networks for a quadrotor are presented. The …

The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is gaining attraction in the development
of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but few research has been made on …