This article reviews the state-of-the-art modeling and control techniques for aerial robots
such as quadrotor systems and presents several future research directions in this area. The …

Payload transportation and manipulation by rotorcraft drones are receiving a lot of attention
from the military, industrial and logistics research areas. The interactions between the UAV …

Executing safe and precise flight maneuvers in dynamic high-speed winds is important for
the ongoing commoditization of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, because the …

Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and
rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications …

Mobile manipulation in robotics is challenging due to the need to solve many diverse tasks,
such as opening a door or picking-and-placing an object. Typically, a basic first-principles …

The performance of robots in high-level tasks depends on the quality of their lower level
controller, which requires fine-tuning. However, the intrinsically nonlinear dynamics and …

Fuel cell/battery hybrid energy storage system (HESS) powered unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) has the outstanding advantage of long endurance time. Trajectory tracking motion is a …

The rising demand for autonomous quadrotor flights across diverse applications has led to
the introduction of novel control strategies, resulting in several comparative analyses and …

This letter presents the design and experimental study of an adaptive nonlinear controller for
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of unknown time-varying disturbances …

Quadrotors, while versatile, are vulnerable to unpredictable environmental disturbances,
including turbulence, gusts, and ground effects, making precise path-following control a …