Aerobatic trajectory generation for a vtol fixed-wing aircraft using differential flatness

E Tal, G Ryou, S Karaman - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel algorithm for aerobatic trajectory generation for a vertical take-
off and landing (VTOL) tailsitter flying wing aircraft. The algorithm differs from existing …

Transition optimization for a VTOL tail-sitter UAV

B Li, J Sun, W Zhou, CY Wen, KH Low… - … /ASME transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the transition process optimization for a vertical takeoff and landing
(VTOL) tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). For VTOL UAVs that can fly with either …

UAV penetration mission path planning based on improved holonic particle swarm optimization

J Luo, Q Liang, H Li - Journal of Systems Engineering and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the requirements of safety, concealment, and timeliness of trajectory planning
during the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) penetration process, a three-dimensional path …

Basic flight maneuver generation of fixed-wing plane based on proximal policy optimization

L Li, X Zhang, C Qian, R Wang - Neural Computing and Applications, 2023 - Springer
Autonomous agile flight control has been a challenging problem due to complex highly
nonlinear dynamics, and generating feasible basic flight maneuvers off-line for subsequent …

Direct nmpc for post-stall motion planning with fixed-wing uavs

M Basescu, J Moore - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer significant performance advantages over
rotary-wing UAVs in terms of speed, endurance, and efficiency. However, these vehicles …

Unmanned aerial vehicle-borne sensor system for atmosphere-particulate-matter measurements: Design and experiments

T Wang, W Han, M Zhang, X Yao, L Zhang, X Peng… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) particulate-matter (PM) monitoring system was
developed that can perform three-dimensional stereoscopic observation of PM2. 5 and …

[HTML][HTML] A corridor-based flight mode transition strategy for agile ducted-fan tail-sitter UAV: Altitude-hold transition

Z Cheng, PEI Hailong - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2023 - Elsevier
As an attractive transition approach, the altitude-hold transition is a special type of super-
maneuvering and the vertical/horizontal flight mode transition that an agile aircraft conducts …

Aerobatic Maneuvering flight control of fixed-wing UAVs: An SE (3) approach using dual quaternion

S Cao, X Wang, R Zhang, Y Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic maneuvering flights have gained significant attention in unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) research, particularly for fixed wings. This article proposes a novel modeling …

A systematic literature map** of path planning and collision avoidance approaches for unmanned fixed-wings

EJR Freitas, MW Cohen, FG Guimarães… - 2024 International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the rapidly evolving world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), fixed-wing aircraft stand
out for their remarkable efficiency and long-range endurance. The path planning and …

Consecutive inertia drift of autonomous RC car via primitive-based planning and data-driven control

Y Lu, B Yang, J Li, Y Zhou, H Chen… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inertia drift is an aggressive transitional driving maneuver, which is challenging due to the
high nonlinearity of the system and the stringent requirement on control and planning …