A review of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles: applications, architectural design and control algorithms

M Idrissi, M Salami, F Annaz - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
Over the past decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received a significant
attention due to their diverse capabilities for non-combatant and military applications. The …

The navigation and control technology inside the ar. drone micro uav

PJ Bristeau, F Callou, D Vissière, N Petit - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper exposes the Navigation and Control technology embedded in a recently
commercialized micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), the AR. Drone, which cost and …

A nonlinear quadrotor trajectory tracking controller with disturbance rejection

D Cabecinhas, R Cunha, C Silvestre - Control Engineering Practice, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of designing and experimentally validating a controller for
steering a quadrotor vehicle along a trajectory, while rejecting constant force disturbances …

Robust global trajectory tracking for underactuated VTOL aerial vehicles using inner-outer loop control paradigms

R Naldi, M Furci, RG Sanfelice… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a feedback control strategy to let the dynamics of a class of under-
actuated vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial vehicle tracking a desired position and …

Robust backstepping control based on integral sliding modes for tracking of quadrotors

H Ramirez-Rodriguez, V Parra-Vega… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2014 - Springer
Modern non-inertial robots are usually underactuated, such as fix or rotary wing Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), underwater or nautical robots, to name a few. Those systems are …

Autonomous landing of a quadrotor on a moving platform

J Ghommam, M Saad - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the design of a navigation control algorithm for the autonomous
landing of a quadrotor on a moving mobile platform. The quadrotor's velocity is unknown …

Almost-global finite-time trajectory tracking control for quadrotors in the exponential coordinates

XN Shi, YA Zhang, D Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the trajectory tracking problem for quadrotors with finite-time
convergence via homogeneous feedback approach. Based on the inherent underactuated …

Robust obstacle avoidance for aerial platforms using adaptive model predictive control

G Garimella, M Sheckells… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the problem of motion planning among obstacles for quadrotor
platforms under external disturbances and with model uncertainty. A novel Nonlinear Model …

Modeling and control of a class of modular aerial robots combining under actuated and fully actuated behavior

R Naldi, F Forte, A Serrani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design, modeling, and control of a new class of modular aerial robots, obtained by
rigidly interconnecting a number of ducted-fan aircraft, are presented in this paper. A …

Single beacon navigation: Observability analysis and filter design

P Batista, C Silvestre, P Oliveira - Proceedings of the 2010 …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of navigation of autonomous vehicles based on the range
to a single beacon. The vehicle is equipped with a standard Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) …