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Gang Wang, Guosheng Xu, Yukun Wang, Yimeng Yao, Kun Wang, Xi Hu, Heyao Sun and Jingwang Liu
Considering the deployment characteristics of the folding wing, this paper proposed three deployment modes, synchronous deployment, fixed-axis?non-fixed-axis stepwise deployment, and non-fixed-axis?fixed-axis stepwise deployment, to obtain the optimal de...
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Chenglou Liu, Fangfang Xie and Tingwei Ji
Formation path planning is a significant cornerstone for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm intelligence. Previous methods were not suitable for large-scale UAV formation, which suffered from poor formation maintenance and low planning efficiency. To th...
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Katsumi Watanabe, Takuma Shibata and Masazumi Ueba
In recent years, the use of fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has expanded, and the use of fixed-wing UAVs is expected to expand due to their usefulness for long-range operations. Different from manned aircraft, no provision is required regardin...
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T. Espinoza-Fraire, Armando Saenz, Isaac Gandarilla and Wojciech Giernacki
This work applies an adaptive PD controller based on MRAS (Model Reference Adaptive System) using Lyapunov theory with sliding mode theory to a Fixed-wing MAV (Mini Aerial Vehicle). The objective is to design different adjustment mechanisms to obtain a r...
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Pablo Brusola, Sergio Garcia-Nieto, Jose Vicente Salcedo, Miguel Martinez and Robert H. Bishop
This paper presents a mathematical modeling approach utilizing a fuzzy modeling framework for fixed-wing aircraft systems with the goal of creating a highly desirable mathematical representation for model-based control design applications. The starting p...
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Dimitrios Mitridis, Stavros Kapsalis, Dimitrios Terzis and Pericles Panagiotou
The current study provides a thorough analysis and evaluation of fixed-wing UAV correlations with respect to NATO classification, region of production, entry-into-service (EIS) date and other operational specifications. A set of 202 existing fixed-wing p...
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Satoshi Hyokawa and Masazumi Ueba
The Aerospace Plane Research Center at the Muroran Institute of Technology is currently conducting research to develop enabling technologies for high-speed aircraft traveling at high altitudes and constructing experimental, small-scale, unmanned superson...
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Koki Hamajima, Kei Yasukawa, Masazumi Ueba, Hisayoshi Kanou, Munehiro Matsui, Junichi Abe, Kiyohiko Itokawa and Fumihiro Yamashita
Among several usages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), wireless relay systems for high altitudes using fixed-wing UAVs, or high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are some of the most promising applications. To realize the systems by making the most of ...
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Yanxiong Zhao, Yun Tian and Zhiqiang Wan
The aerodynamic performances and control characteristics of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft will be significantly affected by the ground effect during takeoff and landing. The longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics and main flow features of a fix...
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Estela Barroso Barderas, Rafael Bardera Mora, Ángel Antonio Rodriguez-Sevillano and Juan Carlos Matías García
Bird tails play a key role in aerodynamics and flight stability. They produce extra lift for takeoff and landing maneuvers, enhance wing functions and maintain stability during flight (keeping the bird from yawing, rolling and pitching, or otherwise losi...
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Junfeng Wu, Huan Wang, Shanshan Li and Shuguang Liu
This paper investigates the distance-based formation and cooperative path-following control problems for multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this study, we design the distance-based formation control structure to achieve the virtual l...
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Robert Clarke, Liam Fletcher, Sebastian East and Thomas Richardson
Reinforcement learning has been used on a variety of control tasks for drones, including, in previous work at the University of Bristol, on perching manoeuvres with sweep-wing aircraft. In this paper, a new aircraft model is presented representing flight...
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Erwhin Irmawan, Agus Harjoko and Andi Dharmawan
The research topic of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) fixed wing (VFW) is gaining significant attention, particularly in the transition phase from VTOL to fixed wing and vice versa. One of the latest and most challenging transition strategies is the...
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Jianjian Liang, Shoukun Wang and Bo Wang
This paper proposes the creative idea that an unmanned fixed-wing aircraft should automatically adjust its 3D landing trajectory online to land on a given touchdown point, instead of following a pre-designed fixed glide slope angle or a landing path comp...
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Ioannis K. Kapoulas, Antonios Hatziefremidis, A. K. Baldoukas, Evangelos S. Valamontes and J. C. Statharas
Various types of small drones constitute a modern threat for infrastructure and hardware, as well as for humans; thus, special-purpose radar has been developed in the last years in order to identify such drones. When studying the radar signatures, we obs...
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Dan Xu, Yunxiao Guo, Zhongyi Yu, Zhenfeng Wang, Rongze Lan, Runhao Zhao, Xinjia Xie and Han Long
Flocking for fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an extremely complex challenge due to fixed-wing UAV?s control problem and the system?s coordinate difficulty. Recently, flocking approaches based on reinforcement learning have attracted attenti...
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Magdalena Peciak, Wojciech Skarka, Krzysztof Mateja and Maik Gude
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that allows for flight in harsh weather for surveillance and access to remote areas. VTOL can be performed without a runway. As such, VOTL UAVs are used in areas where ther...
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Weiwei Qi, Mingbo Tong, Qi Wang, Wei Song and Hunan Ying
In this research, the design of a robust curved-line path-following control system for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (FWUAVs) affected by uncertainties on the latitude plane is studied. This is undertaken to enhance closed-loop system robustness un...
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Jiayu Hao, Yifeng Wang, Yiming Peng, Hui Ma and Xiaohui Wei
The UAV cluster combat puts forward higher requirements for short-distance arresting gears for multitype aircraft. Based on magnetorheological technology, an arresting gear was designed, and the structural parameters of the MR damper were optimized. An i...
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Zhaoyang Wang, Dan Zhao and Yunfeng Cao
In the recent years, visual navigation has been considered an effective mechanism for achieving an autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Nevertheless, with the limitations of visual cameras, the effectiveness of visual algorithms is sign...
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