Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

Autonomous helicopter flight is widely regarded to be a highly challenging control problem.
Despite this fact, human experts can reliably fly helicopters through a wide range of …

Autonomous helicopter flight is widely regarded to be a highly challenging control problem.
This paper presents the first successful autonomous completion on a real RC helicopter of …

Identification Modeling and Characteristics of Miniature Rotorcraft introduces an approach to
developing a simple and effective linear parameterized model of vehicle dynamics using the …

Small-scale helicopters are very attractive for a wide range of civilian and military
applications due to their unique features. However, the autonomous flight for small …

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming popular among researchers and vital
platforms for several autonomous mission systems. In this paper, we present the design and …

A robust nonlinear attitude control method is proposed for uncertain robotic quadrotors. The
proposed controller is developed based on a nonlinear model with the quaternion …

Control is intrinsic to biological organisms, whose cells are in a constant state of sensing
and response to numerous external and self-generated stimuli. Diverse means are used to …

In this paper a novel hierarchical motion control scheme for quadrotor aerial vehicles
equipped with a manipulator is proposed. The controller is organized into two layers: in the …

Autonomous helicopter flight is widely regarded to be a highly challenging control problem.
As helicopters are highly unstable and exhibit complicated dynamical behavior, it is …