Model predictive contouring control for time-optimal quadrotor flight

A Romero, S Sun, P Foehn… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we tackle the problem of flying time-optimal trajectories through multiple
waypoints with quadrotors. State-of-the-art solutions split the problem into a planning task …

Historical and current landscapes of autonomous quadrotor control: An early-career researchers' guide

A Asignacion Jr, S Satoshi - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
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 …

Differential flatness of quadrotor dynamics subject to rotor drag for accurate tracking of high-speed trajectories

M Faessler, A Franchi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we prove that the dynamical model of a quadrotor subject to linear rotor drag
effects is differentially flat in its position and heading. We use this property to compute …

Accurate tracking of aggressive quadrotor trajectories using incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion and differential flatness

E Tal, S Karaman - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can execute aggressive (ie, high-speed
and high-acceleration) maneuvers have attracted significant attention in the past few years …

Path-following control of a quadrotor UAV with a cable-suspended payload under wind disturbances

L Qian, HHT Liu - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A path-following controller based on an uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE) for a
quadrotor with a cable-suspended payload is proposed in this paper. The quadrotor and the …

Autonomous drone race: A computationally efficient vision-based navigation and control strategy

S Li, MMOI Ozo, C De Wagter… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drone racing is becoming a popular sport where human pilots have to control their drones to
fly at high speed through complex environments and pass a number of gates in a pre …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end neural network based optimal quadcopter control

R Ferede, G de Croon, C De Wagter, D Izzo - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Develo** optimal controllers for aggressive high-speed quadcopter flight poses significant
challenges in robotics. Recent trends in the field involve utilizing neural network controllers …

Imu-based inertia estimation for a quadrotor using newton-euler dynamics

J Svacha, J Paulos, G Loianno… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we demonstrate that a quadrotor's tilt, angular velocity, linear velocity and the
parameters shown in Table II may be estimated using only an inertial measurement unit …

Invariant-EKF design for quadcopter wind estimation

H Chen, H Bai, CN Taylor - 2022 American Control Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a nonlinear estimation problem where a quadcopter moves in a wind field. We
show that the quadcopter dynamics is invariant under the action of a Lie group and design …

Experiments in fast, autonomous, gps-denied quadrotor flight

K Mohta, K Sun, S Liu, M Watterson… - … on Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High speed navigation through unknown environments is a challenging problem in robotics.
It requires fast computation and tight integration of all the subsystems on the robot such that …