Payload transportation and manipulation by rotorcraft drones are receiving a lot of attention
from the military, industrial and logistics research areas. The interactions between the UAV …

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 …

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones have gained popularity in many
areas due to their widely used applications. They are used extensively in military and civil …

Aerial manipulation has direct application prospects in environment, construction, forestry,
agriculture, search, and rescue. It can be used to pick and place objects and hence can be …

This is a paper on controlling fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm formations
while coordinating their flocking to a specified circular path. The proposed non-uniform in …

This paper proposes a distributed control scheme for autonomous tugboats to tow a ship in a
restricted water traffic environment ensuring collision avoidance while being compliant with …

In this paper, a composite adaptive fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed for a quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to simultaneously compensate actuator faults, model …

In aerial load transportation applications, knowing the mass of the load in advance is not
always possible. The load dynamics depend on its mass and using a high-performance …

This study investigates the formation planning problem of tethered multirotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative transportation with unknown payload and cable length …

This paper considers the trajectory tracking for a cable-suspended rigid body carried by
multiple quadrotors while maintaining the desired formation. A three-loop control structure is …