Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a wide range of interesting military and commercial
applications at reduced costs. A couple of their more interesting characteristics include: They …

This study gives the mathematic model of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and
then proposes a robust nonlinear controller which combines the sliding-mode control …

A method based on second order sliding mode control (2-SMC) is proposed to design
controllers for a small quadrotor UAV. For the switching sliding manifold design, the …

This paper presents an integral predictive and nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the
path following problem for a quadrotor helicopter. The dynamic motion equations are …

A synthesis control method is proposed to perform the position and attitude tracking control
of the dynamical model of a small quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where the …

Over the last decade, considerable interest has been shown from industry, government and
academia to the design of Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) autonomous aerial …

Developing fault detection and diagnoses algorithms for the unmanned air vehicles such as
the quadrotors is challenging since they are intrinsically non-linear, time-varying, unstable …

The dynamics of a quadrotor are a simplified form of helicopter dynamics that exhibit the
same basic problems of underactuation, strong coupling, multi-input/multi-output design …

This study proposes a novel nonlinear resilient trajectory control for a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) using backstepping control and nonlinear disturbance observer. First, a …

For a quadrotor, one can identify the two well-known inherent rotorcraft characteristics:
underactuation and strong coupling in pitch-yaw-roll. To confront these problems and design …