Climate change has introduced significant challenges that can affect multiple sectors,
including the agricultural one. In particular, according to the Food and Agriculture …

Contemporary autopilot systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are far more limited in
their flight envelope as compared to experienced human pilots, thereby restricting the …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently been used in a wide variety of applications
due to their versatility, reduced cost, rapid deployment, among other advantages. Search …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), often unmanned aerial systems, are increasingly used in
many industries, such as agriculture, forestry, the military, and disaster management. This is …

This thesis focused on atmospheric ice accretions, aerodynamic icing penalties, and ice
protection systems (IPS) on fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The motivation for …

Attitude control of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a difficult control problem
in part due to uncertain nonlinear dynamics, actuator constraints, and coupled longitudinal …

This article presents a mathematical model and a controller for a convertible fixed-wing
Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL). The mathematical model considers the aerodynamic …

We propose the design of a nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) for the attitude
and speed control problem of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The controller is …

There is an increasing interest for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mixed, multi-rotor
propulsion layouts able to assure desirable features of both fixed wing systems (efficiency …

An established reduced-frequency approach leveraging time-dependent 3D CFD-ALE
simulations is used to calculate the static, quasi-static and dynamic stability derivatives of a …