A review of control algorithms for autonomous quadrotors

A Zulu, S John - arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02622, 2016 - arxiv.org
The quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle is a great platform for control systems research as
its nonlinear nature and under-actuated configuration make it ideal to synthesize and …

A review of quadrotor: An underactuated mechanical system

BJ Emran, H Najjaran - Annual Reviews in Control, 2018 - Elsevier
This review concentrates on three main challenges of controlling a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) as an underactuated mechanical system (UMS). The challenges …

Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight

P Foehn, A Romero, D Scaramuzza - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Quadrotors are among the most agile flying robots. However, planning time-optimal
trajectories at the actuation limit through multiple waypoints remains an open problem. This …

Data-driven MPC for quadrotors

G Torrente, E Kaufmann, P Föhn… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerodynamic forces render accurate high-speed trajectory tracking with quadrotors
extremely challenging. These complex aerodynamic effects become a significant …

Data-enabled predictive control: In the shallows of the DeePC

J Coulson, J Lygeros, F Dörfler - 2019 18th European Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of optimal trajectory tracking for unknown systems. A novel data-
enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm is presented that computes optimal and safe …

A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard

K Kim, P Spieler, ES Lupu, A Ramezani, SJ Chung - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Numerous mobile robots in various forms specialize in either ground or aerial locomotion,
whereas very few robots can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond simple walking and …

A comparative study of nonlinear mpc and differential-flatness-based control for quadrotor agile flight

S Sun, A Romero, P Foehn, E Kaufmann… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Performance of metaheuristic optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence in attitude and altitude control of unmanned aerial vehicle for path following

A Altan - 2020 4th international symposium on multidisciplinary …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, it is very important for the success of the determined missions or operations that
the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are used extensively in the performance of …

Sliding mode dual-channel disturbance rejection attitude control for a quadrotor

J Xiong, J Pan, G Chen, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a sliding mode dual-channel disturbance rejection control based on an
extended state observer is proposed for the attitude control of a quadrotor under unknown …

Time-varying formation tracking for second-order multi-agent systems subjected to switching topologies with application to quadrotor formation flying

X Dong, Y Zhou, Z Ren, Y Zhong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-varying formation tracking analysis and design problems for second-order Multi-Agent
systems with switching interaction topologies are studied, where the states of the followers …