This brief presents a backstep**-based controller with input saturations, applicable for the
hover flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A dynamic model for a generic UAV is …

This paper describes a visual tracking control law of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for
monitoring of structures and maintenance of bridges. It presents a control law based on …

The paper concerns the control of vertical take‐off and landing (VTOL) underactuated aerial
vehicles (UAVs) in hover flight, on the basis of measurements provided by an onboard video …

The paper addresses the control of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Underactuated
Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) in hover flight, based on measurements provided by an on …

Stabilization of a class of underactuated vehicles with uncertain measurements of the
position tracking error is addressed. Nonlinear feedback laws ensuring semi-global stability …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have a wide spectrum of potential civilian applications
as observation and data acquisition platforms. Most of the aerial surveillance applications …

The paper concerns the stabilization of thrust-propelled underactuated vehicles in the
context of sensor-based control. First, a class of nonlinear feedback laws that ensure semi …

This paper proposes a new nonlinear visual servoing control law for Vertical Take-Off and
Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which forces the observed target to be …

This paper proposes a new strategy for the hover stabilization of an airship using Dynamic
Inversion. We start by introducing a synthetic model of the airship nonlinear dynamics …

The interest and the possible applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been
increasing at a fast rate in the last few years. Despite the recent technological evolution …