The powered parafoil system is a cutting-edge flight vehicle that features a thrust mechanism
with a propeller and an airdrop parafoil, providing outstanding benefits like extended flight …

Winds are the major contributors to the tracking error in the control process of the powered
parafoil, making it difficult to achieve better control performance. To address this problem, an …

Parafoil airdrop is an important way to deliver goods and materials to area where road
vehicles are not easy to reach. However, it is difficult to deliver large quantities of goods and …

A novel framework is established for accurate modeling of Powered Parafoil Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (PPUAV). The model is developed in the following three steps: obtaining a …

Towing is a critical process to deploy a cylindrical drilling platform. However, the towing
process faces a great variety of risks from a complex nautical environment, the dynamics in …

Powered parafoil system is strongly nonlinear and contains complicated cross-coupling
characteristic. Under the variable wind disturbance, more severe cross-couplings are …

The path-following control of the parafoil system is essential for executing missions, such as
accurate homing and delivery. In this paper, the lateral path-following control of the parafoil …

This article aims to investigate the coupled attitude and orbit tracking control problem of rigid
spacecraft motion. A proportional-integral (PI)-type event-triggered active disturbance …

Enhancing the success rate of airdrops and minimizing resource wastage is crucial during
disaster relief or wartime operations. However, it can be challenging to comprehend ground …

For achieving the accurate trajectory tracking of the flexible wing unmanned aerial vehicle in
the complicated missions, especially the vertical component, a feedforward compensation …