Cooperative threat engagement using drone swarms

JA Ricardo, L Giacomossi, JFS Trentin… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability of multiple manned and unmanned aircraft systems to cooperatively engage and
disable an aerial threat plays a decisive role in modern warfare scenarios. In this paper, we …

Control allocation optimization for an over-actuated tandem tiltwing eVTOL aircraft considering aerodynamic interactions

E Yılmaz, BJ German - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper describes control allocation strategies for a tandem tiltwing electric vertical take-
off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with distributed propulsion. The control mappings are …

Gain scheduling position control for fully-actuated morphing multi-rotor UAVs

Y Aboudorra, A Saini, A Franchi - … International conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents techniques for scheduling the position controller gains for a class of fully-
actuated morphing multi-rotor UAVs that use synchronized tilting to change their actuation …

Advancements in tilted-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles: A comprehensive review

T Urakubo, A Budiyono - Journal of Instrumentation, Automation …, 2023 - ojs.unsysdigital.com
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized various industries by
offering versatile capabilities and applications. Among the different types of UAVs, tilted-rotor …

Test mass 6-DOF control allocation based on the null space for space gravitational wave mission

J Zhang, J Zhang, Y Zhang, W Tao, Z Lu… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel 6-DOF control allocation based on the null space for the
capture control of the drag-free spacecraft's test mass. Considering the unconstrained case …

[PDF][PDF] Modified neural network method for stabilizing multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles

SI Vladov, YM Shmelov, RP Yakovliev, AS Khebda… - 2023 - ceur-ws.org
The work is devoted to the development of a neural network method for stabilizing multirotor
unmanned aerial vehicles in three stabilization angles (roll, yaw, pitch), which is based on a …

Control Allocation for an One-DOF Thrust-Vectored Quadcopter

FP Nery, JA Bezerra, DA Santos - 2024 IEEE ANDESCON, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The control allocation of a quad copter with I-DOF vectoring thrust, respecting the rotors and
actuators' physical bounds, is the subject of this paper. We start by assuming a hierarchical …

Full envelope control of over-actuated fixed-wing vectored thrust eVTOL

E Enenakpogbe, JF Whidborne, L Lu - 2024 - dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk
A novel full-envelope controller for an over-actuated fixed-wing vectored thrust eVTOL
aircraft is presented. It proposes a generic control architecture, which is applicable to piloted …

Tikhonov Regularization Based Control Allocation for Underactuated Input-Affine Systems

JE de Morais, DN Cardoso… - 2023 Latin American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel control allocation method for underactuated input-affine
nonlinear mechanical systems, based on the Tikhonov regularization. A hardware-in-the …

Development of an Efficient Control Allocation for Distributed Tiltrotor UAV

L Yu, G He, K Han, P Wang, Y Ding… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces an efficient control allocation method that improves the control
performance of distributed tiltrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with redundant …