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 …

Review of aerial transportation of suspended-cable payloads with quadrotors

J Estevez, G Garate, JM Lopez-Guede, M Larrea - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Payload transportation and manipulation by rotorcraft drones are receiving a lot of attention
from the military, industrial and logistics research areas. The interactions between the UAV …

Robust adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode tracking control for an uncertain quadrotor UAV subjected to disturbances

M Labbadi, M Cherkaoui - ISA transactions, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the design of a robust controller for the trajectory tracking problem of
an under-actuated quadrotor UAV subject to the modeling uncertainties and unknown …

Multiple observers based anti-disturbance control for a quadrotor UAV against payload and wind disturbances

K Guo, J Jia, X Yu, L Guo, L **e - Control Engineering Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multiple observers based anti-disturbance control (MOBADC) scheme
against multiple disturbances for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The quadrotor …

Observer-based fixed-time continuous nonsingular terminal sliding mode control of quadrotor aircraft under uncertainties and disturbances for robust trajectory …

O Mechali, L Xu, Y Huang, M Shi, X **e - Control Engineering Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper solves an accurate fixed-time attitude and position control problems of a
quadrotor UAV system. The aircraft system is subject to nonlinearities, parameter …

Predefined-time sliding mode attitude control for liquid-filled spacecraft with large amplitude sloshing

X Song, Z Fan, S Lu, Y Yan, B Yue - European Journal of Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present study, a predefined-time attitude stabilization for liquid-filled spacecraft with
large liquid sloshing is investigated under input saturation and external disturbance. First …

Predefined-time attitude stabilization of receiver aircraft in aerial refueling

C Wu, J Yan, J Shen, X Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief addresses the challenging problem of predefined-time attitude stabilization of
receiver aircraft with uncertain inertia and unknown external disturbance. A sliding manifold …

Theory and practice for autonomous formation flight of quadrotors via distributed robust sliding mode control protocol with fixed-time stability guarantee

O Mechali, L Xu, X **e, J Iqbal - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
A detailed theoretical design and technological implementation aspects are presented in
this paper to address the aerial formation control problem of networked quadrotors with a …

Control of quadrotor robot via optimized nonlinear type-2 fuzzy fractional PID with fractional filter: Theory and experiment

W **an, Q Qi, W Liu, Y Liu, D Li, Y Wang - Aerospace Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel approach for controlling quadrotor robots. It introduces an
optimized nonlinear fractional order type-2 fuzzy system integrated with a Fractional Order …

Fixed-time nonlinear homogeneous sliding mode approach for robust tracking control of multirotor aircraft: Experimental validation

O Mechali, L Xu, X **e, J Iqbal - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a robust scheme for fixed-time tracking control of a multirotor system.
The aircraft is subjected to matched lumped disturbances, ie, unmodeled dynamics …