Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

A Al-Kaff, D Martin, F Garcia, A de la Escalera… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete review of computer vision algorithms and vision-based
intelligent applications, that are developed in the field of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Feedback control strategies for quadrotor-type aerial robots: a survey

NS Özbek, M Önkol, MÖ Efe - Transactions of the Institute of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Control of aerial robots is a popular research field as applications with different payloads
lead to a variety of flight missions. Quadrotor-type unmanned systems are one such example …

Stability of helicopters in compliant contact under PD-PID control

PEI Pounds, AM Dollar - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial vehicles are difficult to stabilize, especially when acted upon by external forces. A
hovering vehicle interacting with objects and surfaces must be robust to contact forces and …

Generalized extended state observer based high precision attitude control of quadrotor vehicles subject to wind disturbance

D Shi, Z Wu, W Chou - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind disturbance may significantly degrade the attitude control performance during the flight
of quadrotor vehicles. In order to meet the requirement of high-precision attitude control, a …

Robust landing and sliding maneuver hybrid controller for a quadrotor vehicle

D Cabecinhas, R Naldi, C Silvestre… - … on Control Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the design and experimental evaluation of a robust controller for a
quadrotor landing maneuver comprising the approach to a landing slope and sliding on that …

A quadrotor test bench for six degree of freedom flight

Y Yu, X Ding - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2012 - Springer
In this paper, a quadrotor test bench that can test and verify the 6 DOF flight controller is
presented. The development of controller for aerial vehicle is usually a long and dangerous …

Ellipse proposal and convolutional neural network discriminant for autonomous landing marker detection

R Jin, HM Owais, D Lin, T Song… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous landing in complex environments is a critical problem for unmanned aerial
vehicle autonomous control, and efficiently detecting landing identification mark in real …

Attitude tracking control of a quadrotor UAV in the exponential coordinates

Y Yu, X Ding, JJ Zhu - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2013 - Elsevier
A new approach to control the attitude of a quadrotor UAV in terms of the exponential
coordinates is developed in this paper. The exponential coordinate is a minimal …

Dynamic model and control of an over-actuated quadrotor UAV

R Falconi, C Melchiorri - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel omnidirectional unmanned flying vehicle (UAV) is presented. Staring
from the well known quadrotor model, some features has been introduced in order to create …

UAV rotorcraft in compliant contact: Stability analysis and simulation

PEI Pounds, AM Dollar - 2011 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hovering vehicle interacting with objects and surfaces must be robust to contact forces and
torques transmitted to the airframe, which produce coupled dynamics distinctly different from …