This paper reviews the effect of multirotor aerial vehicle designs on their abilities in terms of
tasks and system properties. We propose a general taxonomy to characterize and describe …

Micro air vehicles with transitioning flight capabilities, or simply hybrid micro air vehicles,
combine the beneficial features of fixed-wing configurations, in terms of endurance, with …

This paper presents the cascaded integration of Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion
(INDI) for attitude control and INDI for position control of micro air vehicles. Significant …

Hybrid unmanned aircraft can significantly increase the potential of micro air vehicles,
because they combine hovering capability with a wing for fast and efficient forward flight …

This paper presents the modeling, simulation, and control of a small-scale electric powered
quadrotor tail-sitter vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle. In the modeling …

This paper reviews the impact of multirotor aerial vehicles designs on their abilities in terms
of tasks and system properties. We propose a general taxonomy to characterize and …

This research focuses on a novel convertible unmanned aerial vehicle (CUAV) featuring four
rotors with tilting capabilities combined with a tapered form. This paper studies the transition …

The interest in building hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is increasing intensively
due to its capability to perform Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL), in addition to forward …

Transitioning vehicles experience three different flight phases during typical missions. The
hovering and forward flight phases have been researched widely, however the transition …

Flight endurance is still a bottleneck for many types of unmanned air vehicle (UAV)
applications. While battery technology improves over the years, for flights that last an entire …