Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention in recent years. Low-
cost platforms using inexpensive sensor payloads have been shown to provide satisfactory …

Payload transportation and manipulation by rotorcraft drones are receiving a lot of attention
from the military, industrial and logistics research areas. The interactions between the UAV …

Accurate trajectory-tracking control for quadrotors is essential for safe navigation in cluttered
environments. However, this is challenging in agile flights due to nonlinear dynamics …

Parametric uncertainties and coupled nonlinear dynamics are inherent in quadrotor
configuration and infer adaptive nonlinear approaches to be used for flight control system …

Abstract The Model Predictive Control (MPC) trajectory tracking problem of an unmanned
quadrotor with input and output constraints is addressed. In this article, the dynamic models …

This paper proposes a linear constrained model predictive control (MPC) to solve the path
following problem for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles. In the controller, an augmented …

In this paper, a fuzzy adaptive output feedback dynamic surface sliding‐mode control
scheme is presented for a class of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The …

Due to the under-actuated and strong coupling characteristics of quadrotor aircraft,
traditional trajectory tracking methods have low control precision, and poor anti-interference …

Motion-planning algorithms play a vital role in attaining various levels of autonomy for any
ground or flying agent. Three-dimensional (3D) motion-planning is interesting, but rather …

In this paper, a novel robust nonlinear control strategy for a disturbed quadrotor is proposed.
The Euler-Newton formula is used to establish the quadrotor's dynamic model with its …