A systematic review is provided on artificial agent methodologies applicable to control
engineering of autonomous vehicles and robots. The paper focuses on some fundamentals …

To perform plant-protection operations, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based automatic
control spraying system was designed in China. The system used a highly integrated and …

To enable the unmanned helicopter to fly autonomously in precise paths and reduce the
influence of internal and external unknown disturbances of the unmanned helicopter, this …

This paper presents the design and the stability analysis of a hierarchical controller for
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), using singular perturbation theory. Position and attitude …

The comprehensive study of modeling and control of small unmanned rotorcraft (helicopters)
addressing all technical challenges faced when dealing with such unstable, nonlinear and …

This paper presents the design and stability analysis of a dual-loop hierarchical controller for
the trajectory tracking of quadrotors subject to unexpected actuator faults. The hierarchical …

The quadrotor represents a class of highly nonlinear dynamic systems and its controllability
features are challenging. Hence, it serves as an ideal unmanned aerial vehicle platform to …

Abstract Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have seen unprecedented levels of growth
during the last two decades. Although many challenges still exist, one of the main UAS focus …

This paper presents a model-based tracking control design for small-scale unmanned
helicopters. The design objective is for the helicopter to track predefined inertial position (or …

This study addresses the adaptive and optimal control problem of a Quanser's 2‐degree‐of‐
freedom helicopter via output feedback. In order to satisfy the requirement of digital …