A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques

N Gyagenda, JV Hatilima, H Roth, V Zhmud - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in environments devoid of GNSS
(Global Navigation Satellite System) service has motivated research into GNSS …

A survey on load transportation using multirotor UAVs

DKD Villa, AS Brandao, M Sarcinelli-Filho - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020 - Springer
Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the
robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial …

A review of quadrotor: An underactuated mechanical system

BJ Emran, H Najjaran - Annual Reviews in Control, 2018 - Elsevier
This review concentrates on three main challenges of controlling a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) as an underactuated mechanical system (UMS). The challenges …

Actuator fault tolerant control using adaptive RBFNN fuzzy sliding mode controller for coaxial octorotor UAV

S Zeghlache, H Mekki, A Bouguerra, A Djerioui - ISA transactions, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a robust controller for a Six Degrees of Freedom (6 DOF) coaxial octorotor
helicopter control is proposed in presence of actuator faults. Radial Base Function Neural …

Learn-to-recover: Retrofitting uavs with reinforcement learning-assisted flight control under cyber-physical attacks

F Fei, Z Tu, D Xu, X Deng - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a generic fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy via reinforcement
learning (RL). We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method on quadcopter unmanned …

Analysis and design of a tilted rotor hexacopter for fault tolerance

JI Giribet, RS Sanchez-Pena… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A proof is presented of how a hexagon-shaped hexacopter can be designed to keep the
ability to reject disturbance torques in all directions while counteracting the effect of a failure …

Actuator fault detection and isolation on a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle modeled as a linear parameter-varying system

JA Guzmán-Rabasa, FR Lopez-Estrada… - Measurement and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents the design of a fault detection and diagnosis system for a quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle under partial or total actuator fault. In order to control the quadrotor …

Real-time vibration-based propeller fault diagnosis for multicopters

B Ghalamchi, Z Jia, MW Mueller - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable health monitoring of mechanical components in aerial robotic systems is crucial to
their safe operation. The highly constrained nature of aerial systems requires that such …

Robust fault-tolerant adaptive integral dynamic sliding mode control using finite-time disturbance observer for coaxial octorotor UAVs

J Sanwale, S Dahiya, P Trivedi, M Kothari - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the dynamics modeling of coaxial octorotor UAVs is described taking into
account the majority of uncertain factors such as actuator faults, parametric deviations, and …

Fault-tolerant trajectory tracking control of a quadcopter in presence of a motor fault

D Asadi, K Ahmadi, SY Nabavi - International Journal of Aeronautical and …, 2022 - Springer
As a part of emergency landing architecture for multi-rotor, a fault-tolerant trajectory tracking
control strategy is proposed in this paper to control a quadcopter in case of a partial motor …