Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles: a review

F Ahmed, JC Mohanta, A Keshari, PS Yadav - Arabian Journal for Science …, 2022‏ - Springer
In recent decades, aerial robots especially small UAVs and drones have witnessed
tremendous improvements in terms of their structure, working methodology, flying features …

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

D Floreano, RJ Wood - nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots—drones—that can autonomously fly in
natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence …

Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4) with appendage repurposing for locomotion plasticity enhancement

E Sihite, A Kalantari, R Nemovi, A Ramezani… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Robot designs can take many inspirations from nature, where there are many examples of
highly resilient and fault-tolerant locomotion strategies to navigate complex terrains by …

A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard

K Kim, P Spieler, ES Lupu, A Ramezani, SJ Chung - Science Robotics, 2021‏ - science.org
Numerous mobile robots in various forms specialize in either ground or aerial locomotion,
whereas very few robots can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond simple walking and …

A collision‐resilient flying robot

A Briod, P Kornatowski, JC Zufferey… - Journal of Field …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Flying robots that can locomote efficiently in GPS‐denied cluttered environments have many
applications, such as in search and rescue scenarios. However, dealing with the high …

Mathematical modelling and parameter identification of quadrotor (a survey)

A Chovancová, T Fico, Ľ Chovanec, P Hubinsk - Procedia Engineering, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The paper focuses on mathematical modelling of a quadrotor and identification of
parameters used in presented models. There are several models of the quadrotor that can …

A comprehensive review on reconfigurable drones: Classification, characteristics, design and control technologies

SH Derrouaoui, Y Bouzid, M Guiatni, I Dib - Unmanned Systems, 2022‏ - World Scientific
Recently, reconfigurable drones have gained particular attention in the field of automation
and flying robots. Unlike the conventional drones, they are characterized by a variable …

Intelligent amphibious ground-aerial vehicles: State of the art technology for future transportation

X Zhang, J Huang, Y Huang, K Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Amphibious ground-aerial vehicles fuse flying and driving modes to enable more flexible air-
land mobility and have received growing attention recently. By analyzing the existing …

Autonomous and adaptive navigation for terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles

R Zhang, Y Wu, L Zhang, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles bloom in both academia and industry because they
incorporate both the high mobility of aerial vehicles and the long endurance of ground …

Recent developments in aerial robotics: A survey and prototypes overview

CF Liew, D DeLatte, N Takeishi, T Yairi - arxiv preprint arxiv:1711.10085, 2017‏ - arxiv.org
In recent years, research and development in aerial robotics (ie, unmanned aerial vehicles,
UAVs) has been growing at an unprecedented speed, and there is a need to summarize the …