Model predictive control in aerospace systems: Current state and opportunities

U Eren, A Prach, BB Koçer, SV Raković… - Journal of Guidance …, 2017‏ - arc.aiaa.org
CONTROLLER design is more troublesome in aerospace systems due to, inter alia, diversity
of mission platforms, convoluted nonlinear dynamics, predominantly strict mission and …

Survey of advances in guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned rotorcraft systems

F Kendoul - Journal of Field Robotics, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recently, there has been growing interest in develo** unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

SBA: A software package for generic sparse bundle adjustment

MIA Lourakis, AA Argyros - ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software …, 2009‏ - dl.acm.org
Bundle adjustment constitutes a large, nonlinear least-squares problem that is often solved
as the last step of feature-based structure and motion estimation computer vision algorithms …

A fully autonomous indoor quadrotor

S Grzonka, G Grisetti, W Burgard - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there has been increased interest in the development of autonomous flying
vehicles. However, as most of the proposed approaches are suitable for outdoor operation …

Monocular‐SLAM–based navigation for autonomous micro helicopters in GPS‐denied environments

S Weiss, D Scaramuzza, R Siegwart - Journal of Field Robotics, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) will soon play a major role in tasks such as
search and rescue, environment monitoring, surveillance, and inspection. They allow us to …

Vision based MAV navigation in unknown and unstructured environments

M Blösch, S Weiss, D Scaramuzza… - … on Robotics and …, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the research on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), the field on flight control and
autonomous mission execution is one of the most active. A crucial point is the localization of …

RANGE–Robust autonomous navigation in GPS‐denied environments

A Bachrach, S Prentice, R He… - Journal of Field Robotics, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the problem of autonomous navigation of a micro air vehicle (MAV) in
GPS‐denied environments. We present experimental validation and analysis for our system …

Autonomous landing of a UAV on a moving platform using model predictive control

Y Feng, C Zhang, S Baek, S Rawashdeh… - Drones, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Develo** methods for autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a
mobile platform has been an active area of research over the past decade, as it offers an …

A vision-based guidance system for UAV navigation and safe landing using natural landmarks

A Cesetti, E Frontoni, A Mancini, P Zingaretti… - Journal of intelligent and …, 2010‏ - Springer
In this paper a vision-based approach for guidance and safe landing of an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) is proposed. The UAV is required to navigate from an initial to a final position …

Autonomous flight in unknown indoor environments

A Bachrach, R He, N Roy - International journal of micro air …, 2009‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents our solution for enabling a quadrotor helicopter, equipped with a laser
rangefinder sensor, to autonomously explore and map unstructured and unknown indoor …