The rising frequency of ocean activities, such as ocean transportation and marine resources
development, inevitably leads to a higher incidence of sudden accidents at sea. Maritime …

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 …

Random external disturbances/parametric uncertainties and other factors deteriorate the
tracking control performances of the quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV). To achieve …

This article presents a practical synthesized sliding-mode control (SSMC) scheme and, then,
applies it to quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. A new adaptive law is …

Recently, it is becoming increasingly possible to apply aerial transportation systems to real-
world applications. However, current research works on cable-suspended transportation …

We address the problem of trajectory tracking control of a quadrotor-slung-load system. A
novel control framework is proposed that relaxes the differentiability class order of the …

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear finite-time control strategy to solve the motion control
problem for a quadrotor with a slung load (QSL). This work aims to realize high-performance …

In this article, a quantized control capable of appointed-time performances for quadrotor
attitude tracking is investigated. A continuous and piecewise behavior boundary, rather than …

This article addresses the design of a path following controller for a payload tethered to a
quadrotor. Specifically, the goal is to design a smooth dynamic feedback controller that …

Aerial delivery is becoming a reality due to the development of microelectronics and
communication technology. Most existing methods for cable-suspended transportation …