Accurate high-maneuvering trajectory tracking for quadrotors: A drag utilization method

J Jia, K Guo, X Yu, W Zhao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The balanceness between the tracking performance and the aerodynamic drag treatment is
of paramount importance especially in the presence of the quadrotor aggressive maneuvers …

Agile flight control under multiple disturbances for quadrotor: Algorithms and evaluation

J Jia, K Guo, X Yu, L Guo, L Xie - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a scheme of anti-disturbance agile flight control is developed for a
maneuverable quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle, subject to the aerodynamic drag …

Analysis of ground effect for small-scale uavs in forward flight

X Kan, J Thomas, H Teng, HG Tanner… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The letter investigates how the behavior of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is
influenced by the system's close proximity to the ground/rigid surfaces both at hover and in …

Propeller thrust and drag in forward flight

R Gill, R D'andrea - 2017 IEEE Conference on control …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a methodology for modelling the thrust, drag, and torque of propellers
used in unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) applications. The model can be used in wide flight …

Quadrotor gray-box model identification from high-speed flight data

S Sun, CC de Visser, Q Chu - Journal of Aircraft, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
To explore the aerodynamic effects on a quadrotor in the high-speed flight regime and
establish an accurate nonlinear model, free-flight tests with a quadrotor are carried out in a …

Control of Quadrotors Using the Hopf Fibration on SO(3)

M Watterson, V Kumar - Robotics Research: The 18th International …, 2019 - Springer
Geometric, coordinate-free approaches are widely used to control quadrotors on the special
Euclidean group (SE (3)). These approaches rely on the construction of an element of the …

Parameter adaptive control for a quadrotor with a suspended unknown payload under external disturbance

Y Wu, Y Xie, S Li - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the disturbance attenuation control of the quadrotor suspended
payload system with unknown payload mass. Since the quadrotor transportation system is …

Visual servoing for teleoperation using a tethered uav

X Xiao, J Dufek, R Murphy - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a visual servoing approach for robotic teleoperation using a tethered
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). When teleoperating a robot, human operator's perception of …

Agile flight for a quadrotor via robust geometry control: Theory and experimental verification

X Gu, B Xian, Y Wang - International Journal of Robust and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the agile flight control design for a quadrotor unnamed aerial vehicle
in the 3D environment. Due to the need for the high speed flight and aggressive manoeuver …

Computationally efficient force and moment models for propellers in UAV forward flight applications

R Gill, R D'Andrea - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Two low-order, parametric models are developed for the forces and moments that a rotating
propeller undergoes in forward flight. The models are derived using a first-principles-based …