In this paper a vision-based approach for guidance and safe landing of an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) is proposed. The UAV is required to navigate from an initial to a final position …

Abstract Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have seen unprecedented levels of growth
during the last two decades. Although many challenges still exist, one of the main UAS focus …

This paper presents a review of the state of the art and a discussion on vertical take-off and
landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applied to the inspection of power utility …

In this paper, a tracking controller is designed for a helicopter with a slung load. The
designed controller is nonlinear and is based on the backstopping method. First, we …

A test bench for experimental testing of the attitude control of a small-scale helicopter is
constructed. A nonlinear model with 10 states is developed for this experimental setup. The …

This paper presents the design and implementation of a vision-based navigation and
landing algorithm for an autonomous helicopter. The vision system allows to define target …

Abstract The “Helicopter ADaptive Aircraft”(HADA) is a reconfigurable UAV that performs
both as a helicopter for take-off, landing and hovering flight, but that “morphs” in flight to a …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a hybrid algorithm using differential
evolution (DE) and prediction error modeling (PEM) for identification of small-scale …

This work proposes a kinematic nonlinear controller for an autonomous miniature helicopter
that generates saturated reference velocity commands for accurate waypoint trajectory …

In the last decade, small-scale unmanned helicopters have attracted a significant interest
due to their unique abilities. Autonomous path following of them is one of the challenging …