Disturbance-rejection-based optimized robust adaptive controllers for UAVs

M Kazim, AT Azar, A Koubaa, A Zaidi - IEEE Systems Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most applications for small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs) have a critical need for
appropriate position and attitude control in environments with extreme external dynamic …

Adaptive Path-Following of Small Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wind

T Souanef - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes an adaptive path-following controller of small fixed-wing unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of wind disturbances, which explicitly considers that …

Disturbance interval observer-based robust constrained control for unmanned aerial vehicle path following

Y Song, K Yong, X Wang - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This work presents a robust constrained path-following control scheme for the unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) under wind disturbances. Through appointing the projection from the …

Real-time motion planning of curvature continuous trajectories for urban UAV operations in wind

J Patrikar, V Dugar, V Arcot… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key challenge in enabling autonomous Un-manned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to operate in
cluttered urban environments is to plan collision-free, smooth, dynamically feasible …

A high-fidelity energy efficient path planner for unmanned airships

S Recoskie, E Lanteigne, W Gueaieb - Robotics, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comparative study of the effects of grid resolution, vehicle velocity and
wind vector fields on the trajectory planning of unmanned airships. A wavefront expansion …

Disturbance-rejection control for the hover and transition modes of a negative-buoyancy quad tilt-rotor autonomous underwater vehicle

T Wang, J Wang, C Wu, M Zhao, T Ge - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a Negative-buoyancy Quad Tilt-rotor Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
(NQTAUV), for which an attitude-tracking controller is designed for the hover and transition …

Comparison of Flight Parameters in SIL Simulation Using Commercial Autopilots and X-Plane Simulator for Multi-Rotor Models

M Welcer, N Sahbon, A Zajdel - Aerospace, 2024 - mdpi.com
Modern aviation technology development heavily relies on computer simulations. SIL
(Software-In-The-Loop) simulations are essential for evaluating autopilots and control …

The Double Propeller Ducted-Fan, an UAV for safe Infrastructure inspection and human-interaction

A Bonci, A Cervellieri, S Longhi… - 2020 25th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrastructure systems strongly influence contemporary society and increasingly our quality
of life depends on it, but unfortunately these infrastructures are ageing and failures are …

Safe UAV Navigation through Wind-Aware Trajectory Planning

M Sharna, SAS Romeo - 2024 Regional Student Conferences, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Safe trajectory planning for small unmanned aerial vehicles in cluttered environments and
unpredictable wind gusts is critical for a wide range of applications, including agriculture …

Multirotor uav coverage planning under wind conditions

JI Vasquez-Gomez… - 2016 International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle coverage is a fast growing area, given that it has several
applications such as precision agriculture, mapping, surveillance, etc. In order to cover a …