Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles—A Systematic Review

MN Marques, SA Magalhães, FN Dos Santos… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the development and research of
tethered aerial systems, thus reflecting a growing interest in their diverse applications. Long …

Unmanned aerial transportation system with flexible connection between the quadrotor and the payload: modeling, controller design, and experimental validation

X Liang, H Yu, Z Zhang, H Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial delivery is becoming a reality due to the development of microelectronics and
communication technology. Most existing methods for cable-suspended transportation …

Side-pull maneuver: A novel control strategy for dragging a cable-tethered load of unknown weight using a UAV

AS Brandão, D Smrcka, É Pairet… - IEEE robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents an approach for dealing with suspended-cable load transportation using
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), specifically when the cargo overcomes the lifting …

Embedding adaptive features in the ardupilot control architecture for unmanned aerial vehicles

P Li, D Liu, X Xia, S Baldi - 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is often subject to state-dependent
alterations and unstructured uncertainty factors, such as unmodelled dynamics …

Robust adaptive feedback linearization controller for an aerial robot working in narrow corridor and in-door environments

V Sumathy, D Ghose - 2021 International Symposium of Asian …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Feedback linearization controller-based robust adaptive controller is designed for an
aerial robot working in a cluttered environment in this paper. Aerial robots are robots with …

Robust adaptive non-linear control design for an aerial robot with in-door application in constrained corridors

V Sumathy, D Ghose - 2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A robust adaptive non-linear controller for a quadcopter manipulator system, used in
applications in constrained narrow corridors, is proposed in this paper. The aerial robot …

Robust Control Using a H Mixed Sensitivity Approach for an UAV with a Suspended Payload

JAE Quispe, TYG Delgado… - IEEE Latin America …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being utilized in a wide range of
applications, including military operations, agronomy, and delivery services, among others …

Task-oriented adaptive sliding mode-based control for underactuated aerial cargo transportation systems: antiswing and finite-time positioning

Y Wu, T Yu, Q Zhang, P Zhao, D Liang… - Journal of Control and …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a finite-time adaptive sliding mode-based control strategy is proposed for
aerial transportation systems. So as to deal with the underactuated cargo swing motion, the …

Control of Unknown Quadrotors from a Single Throw

TM Blaha, EJJ Smeur, BDW Remes - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11723, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a method to recover quadrotor UAV from a throw, when no control
parameters are known before the throw. We leverage the availability of high-frequency rotor …

Designing a reinforcement learning-based robust controller resisting external forces for a octarotor with new structure

D Sharifi, K Torabi, MI Rahaghi, H Shahbazi - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2023 - Springer
Most of the researches conducted in the multirotors field can be divided in two parts of
structure and layout of the new flying propellers and designing controllers fit for the desired …