A reliability framework for safe octorotor UAV flight operations

T Thanaraj, S Govind, A Roy, BF Ng… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Airworthiness of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles is of utmost importance for ensuring
safe flight operations, especially in high-risk airspace. The propulsion system plays a critical …

Control Allocation with Physics-Based Reliability Models for Multirotor UAVs

I Nnamdi-Nwosu, J Liscouët - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2371. vid This paper introduces a
control method to optimize the reliability of underactuated multirotor unmanned aerial …

A methodology to integrate reliability into the conceptual design of safety-critical multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles

J Liscouët, F Pollet, J Jézégou, M Budinger… - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article introduces a new conceptual design methodology to evaluate and explore
underactuated electric multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designs for safety-critical …

Optimizing Flight Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Physics-Based Reliability Models

L Dimitri, J Liscouët - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly expanding across numerous
industries, with a diverse range of applications. Ensuring reliable operation is crucial for …

Performance evaluation of multirotor UAV by considering the balanced pattern

M Lv, C Lin, T Ma, S Hong - Machine Learning for Cyber Security: Third …, 2020 - Springer
The multirotor UAV is a typical k-out-of-n pair: G model, which means that the two rotors
distributed on the same axis must be synchronized operating. That is to say, if a rotor is …

A markov process-based approach for reliability evaluation of the propulsion system in multi-rotor drones

K Aslansefat, F Marques, R Mendonça… - … Innovation for Industry …, 2019 - Springer
Autonomous multirotor drones as a popular type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have
a tremendous potential to facilitate activities such as logistics, emergency response …

Qualitative failure analysis for a small quadrotor unmanned aircraft system

I Olson, EM Atkins - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) …, 2013 - arc.aiaa.org
As Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) become more prevalent, their safety and integration
into the National Airspace System has become a topic of much debate. Current regulations …

Identification of hazardous flight conditions to establish a safe flight envelope for autonomous multirotor aircraft

D Hartman - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
T recent introduction of small unmanned autonomous aircraft into the National Airspace
System (NAS) is leading to increased research on safety and reliability requirements. The …

Resilient multi-UAV operation: key concepts and challenges

E Ordoukhanian, AM Madni - 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are employed in a variety of missions such as
surveillance, law enforcement, agricultural, search and rescue, and payload delivery. In …

Reliability of balanced multi-level unmanned aerial vehicles

J Guo, EA Elsayed - Computers & Operations Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents reliability modeling and estimation of multi-level balanced Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAV). This type of UAVs includes n pairs and m levels of rotors and is …