A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

Fusing ultra-wideband range measurements with accelerometers and rate gyroscopes for quadrocopter state estimation

MW Mueller, M Hamer… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A state estimator for a quadrocopter is presented, using measurements from an
accelerometer, angular rate gyroscope, and a set of ultra-wideband ranging radios. The …

A review on linear and nonlinear control techniques for position and attitude control of a quadrotor

G Farid, M Hongwei, SM Ali, Q Liwei - Control and Intelligent Systems, 2017 - actapress.com
Control and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2017 A REVIEW ON LINEAR AND
NONLINEAR CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR POSITION AND ATTITUDE CONTROL OF A …

Thrust control for multirotor aerial vehicles

M Bangura, R Mahony - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel control algorithm to regulate the aerodynamic thrust produced
by fixed-pitch rotors commonly used on small-scale electrically powered multirotor aerial …

A nonlinear force observer for quadrotors and application to physical interactive tasks

B Yüksel, C Secchi, HH Bülthoff… - 2014 IEEE/ASME …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to properly control the physical interactive behavior of a flying vehicle, the
information about the forces acting on the robot is very useful. Force/torque sensors can be …

Imu-based inertia estimation for a quadrotor using newton-euler dynamics

J Svacha, J Paulos, G Loianno… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we demonstrate that a quadrotor's tilt, angular velocity, linear velocity and the
parameters shown in Table II may be estimated using only an inertial measurement unit …

Aerodynamics of rotor blades for quadrotors

M Bangura, M Melega, R Naldi, R Mahony - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
In this report, we present the theory on aerodynamics of quadrotors using the well
established momentum and blade element theories. From a robotics perspective, the …

Multidisciplinary design optimization of an electric propulsion system of a hybrid UAV considering wind disturbance rejection capability in the quadrotor mode

H Zhang, B Song, F Li, J Xuan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The electric propulsion system (EPS) of a quadrotor fixed-wing hybrid unmanned aerial
vehicle (QFHUAV) has important effects on its time of endurance and wind disturbance …

Image-based visual servoing of rotorcrafts to planar visual targets of arbitrary orientation

J Li, H Xie, KH Low, J Yong, B Li - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter for the first time extends the virtual camera image-based visual servoing (IBVS)
scheme to enable an underactuated rotorcraft UAV to regulate its translational motion and …

A novel online model-based wind estimation approach for quadrotor micro air vehicles using low cost MEMS IMUs

LNC Sikkel, GCHE de Croon… - 2016 IEEE/RSJ …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work extends the drag-force enhanced quadrotor model by denoting the free stream air
velocity as the difference between the ground speed and the wind speed. It is demonstrated …