Active fault-tolerant control of quadrotor UAVs with nonlinear observer-based sliding mode control validated through hardware in the loop experiments

K Ahmadi, D Asadi, A Merheb… - Control Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are highly prone to motor faults, which can arise
from defective motors or damaged propellers. Motor faults severely change the multirotor …

Recent developments and trends in unconventional uavs control: A review

SH Derrouaoui, Y Bouzid, A Belmouhoub… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2023 - Springer
During the previous years, one of the biggest challenges in the field of unconventional
drones is the control of these systems due to their special shape and morphological …

Appointed-time guaranteed adaptive fault-tolerant attitude tracking for quadrotors with aperiodic data updating

X Shao, J Zhang, L Xu, W Zhang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, an appointed-time guaranteed adaptive fault-tolerant attitude tracking for
quadrotors with aperiodic data updating is concerned, where inertial moment variation …

Power regulation and load mitigation of floating wind turbines via reinforcement learning

J **e, H Dong, X Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are often subjected to heavy structural loads due to
challenging operating conditions, which can negatively impact power generation and lead to …

Adaptive fault-tolerant controller for morphing aircraft based on the L2 gain and a neural network

LH Yuan, LD Wang, JT Xu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents an adaptive neural network fault-tolerant controller approach for the
parameters of morphing aircraft that change violently during changing sweep angle …

Practical System Identification and Incremental Control Design for a Subscale Fixed-Wing Aircraft

R Steffensen, K Ginnell, F Holzapfel - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
An incremental differential proportional integral (iDPI) control law using eigenstructure
assignment gain design is tested in flight on a subscale platform to validate its suitability for …

Unified incremental nonlinear controller for the transition control of a hybrid dual-axis tilting rotor quad-plane

A Mancinelli, BDW Remes… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid overactuated tilt rotor uncrewed aerial vehicles (TRUAVs) are a category of versatile
UAVs known for their exceptional wind resistance capabilities. However, their extensive …

Trajectory tracking control for unmanned amphibious surface vehicles with actuator faults

Y Meng, Y Zhang, H Ye, X Yang, Z **ang - Applied Ocean Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a fixed-time fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed for the trajectory tracking
of aquatic–aerial unmanned amphibious vehicles (AquaUAVs) under multiple actuator …

Wind turbine fault-tolerant control via incremental model-based reinforcement learning

J **e, H Dong, X Zhao, S Lin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reinforcement learning (RL) based fault-tolerant control strategy is developed in this paper
for wind turbine torque & pitch control under actuator & sensor faults subject to unknown …

Observer-Based Optimal Control of a Quadplane with Active Wind Disturbance and Actuator Fault Rejection

Z Zyadat, N Horri, M Innocente, T Statheros - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hybrid aircraft configurations with combined cruise and vertical flight capabilities are
increasingly being considered for unmanned aircraft and urban air mobility missions. To …