Review of aerial transportation of suspended-cable payloads with quadrotors

J Estevez, G Garate, JM Lopez-Guede, M Larrea - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
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 …

Fixed-Time Collision-Free Fault-Tolerant Formation Control of Multi-UAVs Under Actuator Faults

Q Miao, K Zhang, B Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When cooperating through an intensive formation, the safe distancing of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) is a delicate issue, especially if UAVs are subjected to actuator faults that …

A Novel Neural Network-Based Robust Adaptive Formation Control for Cooperative Transport of a Payload Using Two Underactuated Quadcopters

LFC Ccari, PR Yanyachi - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing a controller for the cooperative transport of a payload using quadcopter-type
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a very challenging task in control theory because these …

[HTML][HTML] Structural state feedback gain-scheduled tracking control based on linear parameter varying system of morphing wing UAV

P Shao, X Ma, B Yan, Y Dong, C Wu, G Qu… - Journal of the Franklin …, 2025 - Elsevier
Stabilization and control in the morphing process is critical for the safety of morphing wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (MWUAVs). In this paper, a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) …

Cooperative task assignment of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles for simultaneous multi-directional attack on a moving target

S Shahid, Z Zhen, U Javaid - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2025 - Elsevier
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks, on moving targets with directional priorities,
need careful task allocation especially when the UAVs have variable attacking power. In …

Formation Control and Obstacle Avoidance of a Multi-Quadrotor System Based on Model Predictive Control and Improved Artificial Potential Field

F Ghaderi, A Toloei, R Ghasemi - International Journal of Engineering, 2024 - ije.ir
The purpose of this article is to control the formation and pass static and dynamic obstacles
for the quadrotor group, maintain the continuity and flight formation after crossing the …

Enhancing aerial robots performance through robust hybrid control and metaheuristic optimization of controller parameters

YS Alqudsi, RAA Saleh, M Makaraci… - Neural Computing and …, 2024 - Springer
Autonomous flying robots (AFRs) have captured significant interest owing to their agile
maneuverability, adaptability, and economical viability. However, the pursuit of enhancing …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperative control for automatic towing operation by multiple DP tugboats with fully unknown model parameters

X Jiang, Y Zhu, L Wang, Y Wang - Journal of Ocean Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a cooperative consensus control scheme for multiple unmanned
dynamic positioning (DP) tugboats to transport an unactuated floating object through cables …

Reinforcement Learning of Multi-robot Task Allocation for Multi-object Transportation with Infeasible Tasks

Y Shida, T Jimbo, T Odashima, T Matsubara - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multi-object transport using multi-robot systems has the potential for diverse practical
applications such as delivery services owing to its efficient individual and scalable …

Robust Cooperative Control of a Team of UAVs Carrying a Slung Payload

SM Samarasinghe, AA Alqumsan… - … on Systems, Man …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increased use of commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has generated a great
interest in their potential to be used for transporting loads and other equipment. However, as …