A co-optimal coverage path planning method for aerial scanning of complex structures

Z Shang, J Bradley, Z Shen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
The utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in survey and inspection of civil
infrastructure has been growing rapidly. However, computationally efficient solvers that find …

Dcad: Decentralized collision avoidance with dynamics constraints for agile quadrotor swarms

SH Arul, D Manocha - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present DCAD, a novel, decentralized collision avoidance algorithm for navigating a
swarm of quadrotors in dense environments populated with static and dynamic obstacles …

A dual adaptive fault-tolerant control for a quadrotor helicopter against actuator faults and model uncertainties without overestimation

B Wang, X Yu, L Mu, Y Zhang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a dual adaptive fault-tolerant control strategy for a quadrotor helicopter
based on adaptive sliding mode control and adaptive boundary layer. Within the proposed …

Methodology for indoor positioning and landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle in a smart manufacturing plant for light part delivery

P Orgeira-Crespo, C Ulloa, G Rey-Gonzalez… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are spreading their usage in many areas, including last-
mile distribution. In this research, a UAV is used for performing light parts delivery to …

Global saturated tracking control of a quadcopter with experimental validation

W Xie, G Yu, D Cabecinhas, R Cunha… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter addresses the design of a global saturated trajectory tracking controller for a
quadcopter in the presence of external disturbances. The proposed control law guarantees …

Simultaneous contact and aerodynamic force estimation (s-CAFE) for aerial robots

T Tomić, P Lutz, K Schmid, A Mathers… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we consider the problem of multirotor flying robots physically interacting with
the environment under influence of wind. The results are the first algorithms for simultaneous …

UAV trajectory planning in a port environment

G Tang, Z Hou, C Claramunt, X Hu - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In many situations, the trajectory of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is very likely to
deviate from the initial path generated by a path planning algorithm. This is in fact due to the …

[图书][B] Independent position and attitude control on multirotor aerial platforms

L Ruan - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Multirotor aerial platforms have obtained growing attentions in industry and academia, for its
simplicity in mechanical structure, agility in maneuverability and ability for vertical take-off …

A precision pose measurement technique based on multi-cooperative logo

JP Guo, PZ Wu, WR Wang - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of image recognition technology to complete the precise pose measurement of
objects has always been a difficulty in the field of computer vision. This paper proposes a …

Global trajectory tracking for a quadrotor through event-triggered control: Synthesis, simulations, and experiments

ZHU Xuan-Zhi, P Casau… - 2020 American Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an event-triggered controller that solves the problem of trajectory
tracking for an aerial vehicle with a thrust actuation in a single body-fixed direction and full …