Abstract Space telescopes have been instrumental in enlightening our understanding of the
universe, from the iconic Hubble Space Telescope to specialized instruments like Chandra …

The design of output constrained control system for unmanned aerial vehicles deployed in
confined areas is an important issue in practice and not taken into account in many autopilot …

This paper addresses a new trajectory tracking controller for quad-rotor aircrafts in the
presence of time-varying aerodynamic effect and bounded external disturbance using the …

A new robust adaptive mixing control (RAMC) is proposed in order to accomplish trajectory
tracking of a tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configuration. This kind of system is a …

Cable-suspended transportation is an important way of transferring goods and materials by
rotorcraft in complex and hazardous environments, where external disturbances, system …

Nonlinear H-infinity control is proposed for the regulation of the levels of oxygen and carbon
dioxide in the blood of patients undergoing heart surgery and extracorporeal blood …

This paper proposes a nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the load transportation
problem by using a quadrotor UAV along a predefined trajectory. For the present study, the …

Research studies on quadrotors have recently drawn significant interest from academia and
industry. Faults and failures handling are the major weaknesses of conventional quadrotor …

THE manipulation capability offered by autonomous and tele-operated space robots is
crucial for undertaking orbital missions such as in-orbit assembly, maintenance and repair …

This work proposes single-layer nonlinear model predictive control schemes to solve the
autonomous navigation problem while providing obstacle avoidance feature in cluttered …