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 …

Backpropagating constraints-based trajectory tracking control of a quadrotor with constrained actuator dynamics and complex unknowns

N Wang, SF Su, M Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a backpropagating constraints-based trajectory tracking control (BCTTC)
scheme is addressed for trajectory tracking of a quadrotor with complex unknowns and …

Autonomous quadcopter precision landing onto a heaving platform: New method and experiment

N Xuan-Mung, SK Hong, NP Nguyen, TL Le - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, with the increasing popularity of quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles in
several real-world applications, achieving a fully autonomous quadcopter flight has become …

A review on cooperative robotic arms with mobile or drones bases

LP Ramalepa, RS Jamisola Jr - International Journal of Automation and …, 2021 - Springer
This review paper focuses on cooperative robotic arms with mobile or drone bases
performing cooperative tasks. This is because cooperative robots are often used as risk …

Low-complexity control for vision-based landing of quadrotor UAV on unknown moving platform

J Lin, Y Wang, Z Miao, H Zhong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the vision-based landing problem of a low-cost quadrotor on an
unknown moving platform. A robust landing controller is developed, which consists of the …

Adaptive fuzzy global sliding mode control for trajectory tracking of quadrotor UAVs

J Zhang, Z Ren, C Deng, B Wen - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy-based global sliding mode control strategy is proposed for
quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in robust trajectory tracking against parameter …

Path following control of quadrotor UAV with continuous fractional-order super twisting sliding mode

M Labbadi, Y Boukal, M Cherkaoui - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020 - Springer
Quadrotors are highly maneuverable drones, which are susceptible to the parameter
uncertainties such as the mass, drag coefficients, and moment of inertia. Whose …

Fixed-time trajectory tracking for a quadrotor with external disturbances: A flatness-based sliding mode control approach

X Ai, J Yu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
This study proposes a flatness-based fixed-time sliding mode control strategy to address the
trajectory tracking problem for a quadrotor with external disturbances. Based on the …

Quadcopter precision landing on moving targets via disturbance observer-based controller and autonomous landing planner

N Xuan-Mung, NP Nguyen, T Nguyen, DB Pham… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles, especially quadcopters, play key roles in many real-world
applications and the related quadcopter autonomous control algorithms have attracted a …

Inverted docking station: A conceptual design for a battery-swapping platform for quadrotor uavs

SC De Silva, M Phlernjai, S Rianmora, P Ratsamee - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
“Flight Time” and the “Scope of the mission” play major roles in using UAVs as they affect
most industrial activities. Once the battery has depleted, the UAV has to land on the ground …