Review of designs and flight control techniques of hybrid and convertible VTOL UAVs

GJJ Ducard, M Allenspach - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Observer design for continuous-time dynamical systems

P Bernard, V Andrieu, D Astolfi - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
We review the main design techniques of state observer design for continuous-time
dynamical systems, namely algorithms which reconstruct online the full information of a …

Neural-fly enables rapid learning for agile flight in strong winds

M O'Connell, G Shi, X Shi, K Azizzadenesheli… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
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 …

Formulas for data-driven control: Stabilization, optimality, and robustness

C De Persis, P Tesi - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a paper by Willems et al., it was shown that persistently exciting data can be used to
represent the input-output behavior of a linear system. Based on this fundamental result, we …

Adaptive optimal control of affine nonlinear systems via identifier–critic neural network approximation with relaxed PE conditions

R Luo, Z Peng, J Hu, BK Ghosh - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper considers an optimal control of an affine nonlinear system with unknown system
dynamics. A new identifier–critic framework is proposed to solve the optimal control problem …

Optimal and autonomous control using reinforcement learning: A survey

B Kiumarsi, KG Vamvoudakis… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the current state of the art on reinforcement learning (RL)-based
feedback control solutions to optimal regulation and tracking of single and multiagent …

Hamiltonian-driven adaptive dynamic programming with efficient experience replay

Y Yang, Y Pan, CZ Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel efficient experience-replay-based adaptive dynamic
programming (ADP) for the optimal control problem of a class of nonlinear dynamical …

Fully distributed event-triggered protocols for linear multiagent networks

B Cheng, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the distributed event-triggered consensus problem for general linear
multiagent networks. Both the leaderless and leader-follower consensus problems are …

Cooperative finitely excited learning for dynamical games

Y Yang, H Modares, KG Vamvoudakis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a way to enhance the learning framework for zero-sum games
with dynamics evolving in continuous time. In contrast to the conventional centralized actor …

Physical safety and cyber security analysis of multi-agent systems: A survey of recent advances

D Zhang, G Feng, Y Shi… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent systems (MASs) are typically composed of multiple smart entities with
independent sensing, communication, computing, and decision-making capabilities …