Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

In recent years, research and development in aerial robotics (ie, unmanned aerial vehicles,
UAVs) has been growing at an unprecedented speed, and there is a need to summarize the …

Micro Aerial Vehicles (FOV) are very suitable for flying in indoor environments, but
autonomous navigation is challenging due to their strict hardware limitations. This paper …

Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering
flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging …

Optical flow has been widely used by insects and birds to support navigation functions. Such
information has appealing capabilities for application to ground and aerial robots, especially …

This paper proposes a homography-based visual servo control approach for the stabilization
of underactuated unmanned aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments. A virtual …

This article presents a comparison of three control techniques: nested saturations,
backstepping, and sliding modes. The control objective consists of obtaining the best control …

This study presents a comprehensive investigation of the emission impact, environmental
damage cost, exergoenvironmental and life cycle assessment (LCA) analyses of a micro …

Detection and prevention of faults in overhead electric lines is critical for the reliability and
availability of electricity supply. The disadvantages of conventional methods range from …

We propose a vision-based position control method, with the purpose of providing some
level of autonomy to a quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle. Our approach estimates the …