Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the performance of several
different UAV trajectory tracking algorithms in normal and abnormal flight conditions to …

This paper presents a Matlab/Simulink simulation environment developed at West Virginia
University to facilitate the design, testing, and analysis of fault-tolerant control laws for …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to gain trajectory-tracking controllers for autonomous
aircraft are optimized using a modified evolutionary, or genetic algorithm (GA) …

Control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles is of importance given that so many have been
deployed in the field. This work discusses how genetic algorithms (GA) have been applied to …

This thesis presents the development of a UAV simulation environment for the design,
analysis, and comparison of autonomous flight control laws. The simulation environment …

This paper presents the development and testing through simulation of an integrated
scheme for aircraft sub-system failure detection and identification (FDI) based on the artificial …

The differences between two types of pose-based UAV path generation methods clothoid
and Dubins are analyzed in this thesis. The Dubins path is a combination of circular arcs …

Purpose–A simplified global positioning system (GPS) error model including models for a
variety of abnormal operational conditions and failures is developed to provide simulation …

A detection and identification scheme for abnormal conditions was developed for an
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on the artificial immune system (AIS) paradigm. This …

To solve the problem of scene simulation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) formation
flight, a method based on FlightGear is proposed. The 3D scene simulation system scheme …