A survey of path following control strategies for UAVs focused on quadrotors

B Rubí, R Pérez, B Morcego - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2020 - Springer
The trajectory control problem, defined as making a vehicle follow a pre-established path in
space, can be solved by means of trajectory tracking or path following. In the trajectory …

Nonlinear robust tracking control of a quadrotor UAV on SE (3)

T Lee, M Leok, NH McClamroch - Asian journal of control, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides nonlinear tracking control systems for a quadrotor unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) that are robust to bounded uncertainties. A mathematical model of a quadrotor …

Geometric nonlinear PID control of a quadrotor UAV on SE (3)

F Goodarzi, D Lee, T Lee - 2013 European control conference …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonlinear PID control systems for a quadrotor UAV are proposed to follow an attitude
tracking command and a position tracking command. The control systems are developed …

A review of autonomous multi-agent quad-rotor control techniques and applications

PT Nathan, HAF Almurib… - 2011 4th International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The theory analysis of this review is applied to the task of controlling and maneuvering the
quad-rotor. The singular four rotor flying vehicle is designed, optimized and applied to the …

A globally stabilizing path following controller for rotorcraft with wind disturbance rejection

D Cabecinhas, R Cunha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief addresses the design and experimental evaluation of a global controller to steer a
quadrotor vehicle along a predefined path in the presence of constant wind disturbances …

Geometric adaptive tracking control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle on SE (3) for agile maneuvers

FA Goodarzi, D Lee, T Lee - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents nonlinear tracking control systems for a quadrotor unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) under the influence of uncertainties. Assuming that there exist unstructured …

Stable path-following control for a quadrotor helicopter considering energy consumption

DC Gandolfo, LR Salinas, A Brandão… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A substantial interest in aerial robots has grown in recent years. However, the energetic cost
of flying is one of the key challenges nowadays. Rotorcrafts are heavier-than-air flying …

A leader-following trajectory generator with application to quadrotor formation flight

V Roldão, R Cunha, D Cabecinhas, C Silvestre… - Robotics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a strategy for real-time generation of formation trajectories using a
leader–follower approach. A trajectory generator prescribes the motion of a group of virtual …

Quadrotor path following and reactive obstacle avoidance with deep reinforcement learning

B Rubí, B Morcego, R Pérez - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2021 - Springer
A deep reinforcement learning approach for solving the quadrotor path following and
obstacle avoidance problem is proposed in this paper. The problem is solved with two …

Deep reinforcement learning for quadrotor path following with adaptive velocity

B Rubí, B Morcego, R Pérez - Autonomous Robots, 2021 - Springer
This paper proposes a solution for the path following problem of a quadrotor vehicle based
on deep reinforcement learning theory. Three different approaches implementing the Deep …