Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

Recent developments and trends in unconventional uavs control: A review

SH Derrouaoui, Y Bouzid, A Belmouhoub… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2023 - Springer
During the previous years, one of the biggest challenges in the field of unconventional
drones is the control of these systems due to their special shape and morphological …

Image-based visual servo control for aerial manipulation using a fully-actuated UAV

G He, Y Jangir, J Geng, M Mousaei… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to per-form high-altitude manipulation tasks
beyond just passive visual application can reduce the time, cost, and risk of human workers …

Thrust vectoring control of a novel tilt-rotor uav based on backstepping sliding model method

Z Yu, J Zhang, X Wang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a control method of a novel tilt-rotor UAV with a blended wing body layout is
studied. The novel UAV is capable of vertical take-off and landing and has strong stealth …

UAS simulator for modeling, analysis and control in free flight and physical interaction

A Keipour, M Mousaei, J Geng, D Bai… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1279. vid This paper presents the
ARCAD simulator for the rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), including …

Online rotor fault detection and isolation for vertical takeoff and landing vehicles

J Lian, N Gandhi, Y Wang… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles are becoming increasingly popular for real-
world transport; but, as with any vehicle, guaranteeing safety is both extremely critical and …

A lightweight controller for autonomous following of a target platform for drones

A Farooq, S Shafi, Z Ullah, M Quresh… - … on Cybernetics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are providing interminable opportunities to
capture high-quality video feeds that were previously impossible and have transformed the …

Learning-Based Minimally-Sensed Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Flight Control

M O'Connell, J Cho, M Anderson… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many multirotor aircraft use redundant configurations to maintain control in the event of an
actuator failure. Due to the redundancy of the system, fault isolation is inherently difficult and …

Novel cascaded incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion controller approach for a tiltrotor vtol

M Henkenjohann, U Nolte, C Henke… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel cascaded incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI) flight
controller approach for a tiltrotor VTOL. The main focus is the adaption of INDI to a specific …

VTOL failure detection and recovery by utilizing redundancy

M Mousaei, A Keipour, J Geng, S Scherer - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Offering vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities and the ability to travel great
distances are crucial for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles. These capabilities make hybrid …