This paper provides a broad perspective and analysis of the work done in control of hybrid
and convertible unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the main existing designs. These flying …

Micro air vehicles with transitioning flight capabilities, or simply hybrid micro air vehicles,
combine the beneficial features of fixed-wing configurations, in terms of endurance, with …

Precision agriculture currently presents significant growth thanks to the development of three
main technologies: drones, vision-based systems, and embedded electronics. To take …

This article presents the design of optimal sliding mode control (SMC) and optimal super-
twisting sliding mode control (STSMC) for the roll motion of vertical take-off and landing …

This study presents a control design of roll motion for a vertical take-off and landing
unmanned air vehicle (VTOL-UAV) design based on the Model Reference Adaptive Control …

This paper presents the development of an optimization-based trajectory planner for the
autonomous transition of a quadrotor biplane tailsitter (QRBP) between the flight modes of …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0879. vid Tilt-rotor vertical takeoff
and landing aerial vehicles have been gaining popularity in urban air mobility applications …

This study presents the design, construction, and testing of a fully actuated quadrotor UAV
prototype named FlapPyr that utilizes the"+" arrangement to produce horizontal forces. Four …

The field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has grown in the last years, showing its utility
in broader applications. For instance, in surveillance, precision agriculture, pack delivery …

UNMANNED aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted lots of recent attention due to their
outstanding performances in many fields, such as aerial photography, precision farming …