A review of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles: applications, architectural design and control algorithms

M Idrissi, M Salami, F Annaz - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
Over the past decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received a significant
attention due to their diverse capabilities for non-combatant and military applications. The …

Model predictive control in aerospace systems: Current state and opportunities

U Eren, A Prach, BB Koçer, SV Raković… - Journal of Guidance …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
CONTROLLER design is more troublesome in aerospace systems due to, inter alia, diversity
of mission platforms, convoluted nonlinear dynamics, predominantly strict mission and …

Model predictive control of three-axis gimbal system mounted on UAV for real-time target tracking under external disturbances

A Altan, R Hacıoğlu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The fact that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) move in a specific path and that the
camera in the gimbal system mounted on the UAV adhere to the right target attracts the …

Robust adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode tracking control for an uncertain quadrotor UAV subjected to disturbances

M Labbadi, M Cherkaoui - ISA transactions, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the design of a robust controller for the trajectory tracking problem of
an under-actuated quadrotor UAV subject to the modeling uncertainties and unknown …

Observer-based adaptive fuzzy finite-time attitude control for quadrotor UAVs

K Liu, P Yang, R Wang, L Jiao, T Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an observer-based adaptive fuzzy finite-time attitude control strategy for
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). To estimate the information of angular velocity …

Multiple observers based anti-disturbance control for a quadrotor UAV against payload and wind disturbances

K Guo, J Jia, X Yu, L Guo, L Xie - Control Engineering Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multiple observers based anti-disturbance control (MOBADC) scheme
against multiple disturbances for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The quadrotor …

Learning deep control policies for autonomous aerial vehicles with mpc-guided policy search

T Zhang, G Kahn, S Levine… - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model predictive control (MPC) is an effective method for controlling robotic systems,
particularly autonomous aerial vehicles such as quadcopters. However, application of MPC …

A Review of quadrotor UAV: Control and SLAM methodologies ranging from conventional to innovative approaches

G Sonugür - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
There are two indispensable methodologies for autonomous flights performed by unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAV). The first is flight control, and the other is simultaneous localization and …

Second order sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV

EH Zheng, JJ Xiong, JL Luo - ISA transactions, 2014 - Elsevier
A method based on second order sliding mode control (2-SMC) is proposed to design
controllers for a small quadrotor UAV. For the switching sliding manifold design, the …

Continuous sliding-mode control strategies for quadrotor robust tracking: Real-time application

H Ríos, R Falcón, OA González… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of robust tracking control for quadrotors is an important and challenging problem
nowadays. In this paper, a robust tracking output-control strategy is proposed for a quadrotor …