Review of designs and flight control techniques of hybrid and convertible VTOL UAVs

GJJ Ducard, M Allenspach - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a broad perspective and analysis of the work done in control of hybrid
and convertible unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the main existing designs. These flying …

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 …

MPC flight control for a tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft

L Bauersfeld, L Spannagl, GJJ Ducard… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a model predictive control (MPC) controller and its novel application to
a hybrid tilt-quadrotor fixed-wing aircraft, which combines vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) …

An underactuated control system design for adaptive autopilot of fixed-wing drones

S Baldi, S Roy, K Yang, D Liu - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective design of autopilots for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is still a great
challenge, due to unmodeled effects and uncertainties that these vehicles exhibit during …

Adaptive Vector Field Guidance Without a Priori Knowledge of Course Dynamics and Wind

X Wang, S Roy, S Fari, S Baldi - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high maneuverability of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) exposes these
systems to several dynamical and parametric uncertainties, severely affecting the fidelity of …

[HTML][HTML] Transition control of a tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle with L1 neural network adaptive control

J Zhong, W Chen, H Zhang - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2023 - Elsevier
The main task of this work is to design a control system for a small tail-sitter Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) during the transition process. Although reasonable control …

Dynamic characteristics analysis and robust transition control of tail-sitter VTOL UAVs

Y Yang, J Zhu, X Yuan, X Wang, M Kuang… - Aerospace Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The strong nonlinear dynamics of tail-sitter vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) have consistently constrained their applications. Particularly, the …

Applications, challenges, and solutions of unmanned aerial vehicles in smart city using blockchain

SFA Shah, T Mazhar, T Al Shloul, T Shahzad… - PeerJ Computer …, 2024 - peerj.com
Real-time data gathering, analysis, and reaction are made possible by this information and
communication technology system. Data storage is also made possible by it. This is a good …

Transition nonlinear blended aerodynamic modeling and anti-harmonic disturbance robust control of fixed-wing tiltrotor UAV

J Liao, H Bang - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study proposed a novel nonlinear blended aerodynamic model for the tiltrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the transition phase to handle the high angle-of …

Back-transition control with large deceleration for a dual propulsion VTOL UAV based on its maneuverability

C Kikumoto, T Urakubo, K Sabe… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter analyzes the maneuverability of a fixed-wing hybrid Vertical Take-Off and Landing
(VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and proposes a control strategy for back …