[HTML][HTML] Recent advances and challenges in controlling quadrotors with suspended loads

HM Omar, R Akram, SMS Mukras… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quadrotors have been utilized in a variety of applications where the payload needs to be
transferred from one location to another, such as in mine detection, load delivery through …

A survey of guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned aerial systems

JA Marshall, W Sun, A L'Afflitto - Annual Reviews in control, 2021 - Elsevier
This survey paper presents a holistic perspective on the state-of-the-art in the design of
guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned …

Safe learning of quadrotor dynamics using barrier certificates

L Wang, EA Theodorou… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To effectively control complex dynamical systems, accurate nonlinear models are typically
needed. However, these models are not always known. In this paper, we present a data …

Coordinated control of multi-robot systems: A survey

J Cortés, M Egerstedt - SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, significant gains have been made in our understanding of multi-robot systems,
and such systems have been deployed in domains as diverse as precision agriculture …

Thrust mixing, saturation, and body-rate control for accurate aggressive quadrotor flight

M Faessler, D Falanga… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrotors are well suited for executing fast maneuvers with high accelerations but they are
still unable to follow a fast trajectory with centimeter accuracy without iteratively learning it …

Safe certificate-based maneuvers for teams of quadrotors using differential flatness

L Wang, AD Ames, M Egerstedt - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety Barrier Certificates that ensure collision-free maneuvers for teams of differential
flatness-based quadrotors are presented in this paper. Synthesized with control barrier …

Minimum-time trajectory generation for quadrotors in constrained environments

S Spedicato, G Notarstefano - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel strategy to compute minimum-time trajectories for
quadrotors in constrained environments. In particular, we consider the motion in a given …

Optimal guidance and control with nonlinear dynamics using sequential convex programming

R Foust, SJ Chung, FY Hadaegh - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a novel method for expanding the use of sequential convex
programming (SCP) to the domain of optimal guidance and control problems with nonlinear …

Autonomous flight

S Tang, V Kumar - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
This review surveys the current state of the art in the development of unmanned aerial
vehicles, focusing on algorithms for quadrotors. Tremendous progress has been made …

Quadrotor gray-box model identification from high-speed flight data

S Sun, CC de Visser, Q Chu - Journal of Aircraft, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
To explore the aerodynamic effects on a quadrotor in the high-speed flight regime and
establish an accurate nonlinear model, free-flight tests with a quadrotor are carried out in a …