During last decade the scientific research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (UAVs) increased
spectacularly and led to the design of multiple types of aerial platforms. The major challenge …

Recently, there has been growing interest in develo** unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

Civil engineers always face the challenge of uncertainty in planning, building, and
maintaining infrastructure. These works rely heavily on a variety of surveying and monitoring …

This paper presents an integral predictive and nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the
path following problem for a quadrotor helicopter. The dynamic motion equations are …

Swarm robotics systems are characterized by decentralized control, limited communication
between robots, use of local information, and emergence of global behavior. Such systems …

This article is an introduction to feedback control design for a family of robotic aerial vehicles
with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities such as quadrotors, ducted-fan tail …

This thesis work focused on the study of a quadrotor helicopter. The dynamic system
modelling and the control algorithm evaluation were carried out. To test the results, a …

This article presents a survey on publicly available open-source projects (OSPs) on
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Recently, there has been increasing interest in …

This paper presents a nonlinear controller for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that exploits a measurement optical flow to enable hover …

Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering
flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging …