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 …

Leader-follower formation of light-weight UAVs with novel active disturbance rejection control

J Li, J Liu, S Huangfu, G Cao, D Yu - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering that the formation composed of light-weight UAVs is highly susceptible to the
interference, which may from the changes in the external environment and the uncertainty of …

Fixed-time control for a quadrotor with a cable-suspended load

Z Lv, Y Wu, XM Sun, QG Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the motion control for a quadrotor with a cable-suspended load
(QCSL). A fixed-time control strategy is presented to improve the transient response and …

Cooperative load transportation with two quadrotors using adaptive control

DKD Villa, AS Brandao, R Carelli… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of carrying a bar-shaped payload suspended by flexible cables attached to two
quadrotors is analyzed in this work. The aerial vehicles and the load are dealt with as a …

Position control of quadrotor UAV based on cascade fuzzy neural network

J Rao, B Li, Z Zhang, D Chen, W Giernacki - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this article, a cascade fuzzy neural network (FNN) control approach is proposed for
position control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system with high coupling and …

Robust cascade observer for a disturbance unmanned aerial vehicle carrying a load under multiple time-varying delays and uncertainties

O Hernández-González, B Targui… - … Journal of Systems …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, a novel approach of a robust flight observer for a disturbance quadrotor
transporting a payload in the presence of multiple time-varying delays is proposed. The …

Study on the environmental adaptability of lithium-ion battery powered UAV under extreme temperature conditions

N Li, X Liu, B Yu, L Li, J Xu, Q Tan - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have more and more potential in the emergency rescue
tasks under disastrous conditions. Thus, the environmental adaptability of UVAs under …

Design, simulation, analysis and optimization of PID and fuzzy based control systems for a quadcopter

IS Leal, C Abeykoon, YS Perera - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are becoming one of the key machines/tools of the
modern world, particularly in military applications. Numerous research works are underway …

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 …

Robust IDA-PBC for under-actuated systems with inertia matrix dependent of the unactuated coordinates: Application to a UAV carrying a load

ME Guerrero-Sánchez, O Hernández-González… - Nonlinear …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a methodology to solve the problem of robustification of Interconnection
and Damping Assignment-Passivity Based Control (IDA-PBC) scheme for the case of under …