Application and potential of drone technology in oil palm plantation: Potential and limitations

Z Khuzaimah, NM Nawi, SN Adam… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oil palm has become one of the largest plantation industries in Malaysia, but the constraints
in terms of manpower and time to monitor the development of this industry have caused …

Robust attitude regulation of a 3-DOF helicopter benchmark: theory and experiments

B Zheng, Y Zhong - IEEE transactions on industrial electronics, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design and experimental results of the robust attitude regulation for
a 3-DOF Quanser helicopter benchmark. The control objective is to asymptotically track the …

Nonlinear robust fault-tolerant control of the tilt trirotor UAV under rear servo's stuck fault: Theory and experiments

B Xian, W Hao - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fault-tolerant control strategy to deal with the rear servo's stuck fault
together with unknown exogenous disturbances of a trirotor unmanned aerial vehicle. A …

Fault-tolerant position tracking control design for a tilt tri-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle

W Hao, B Xian, T Xie - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a new nonlinear robust fault-tolerant position tracking control law is proposed
for a tilt tri-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under unknown rear servo's stuck fault …

Extended state observer based control for coaxial-rotor UAV

MR Mokhtari, AC Braham, B Cherki - ISA transactions, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of controlling the position and the orientation of a Coaxial-
Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-CRUAV-despite unknown aerodynamic efforts. A …

A new robust control for minirotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles

MR Mokhtari, B Cherki - ISA transactions, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new robust control based on finite-time Lyapunov stability controller
and proved with backstepping method for the position and the attitude of a small rotorcraft …

An MPC‐based position controller for a tilt‐rotor tricopter VTOL UAV

A Prach, E Kayacan - Optimal control applications and methods, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents a novel framework, namely, the fusion of a conventional controller and a
linear model predictive controller, for the position control of a tilt‐rotor tricopter. While the …

Dynamic modeling and stabilization techniques for tri-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles

DW Yoo, HD Oh, DY Won, MJ Tahk - International Journal of …, 2010 - koreascience.kr
The design, dynamics, and control allocation of tri-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
are introduced in this paper. A trirotor UAV has three rotor axes that are equidistant from its …

Robust trajectory tracking for an uncertain UAV based on active disturbance rejection

LA Blas, J Dávila, S Salazar… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This note addresses the design of a robust trajectory tracking controller based on active
disturbance rejection for a quadrotor Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV). A standard state …

Control of VTOL vehicles with thrust-tilting augmentation

MD Hua, T Hamel, P Morin, C Samson - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
An approach to the control of a VTOL vehicle equipped with complementary thrust-tilting
capabilities that nominally yield full actuation of the vehicle's position and attitude is …