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Wenzhan Li, Yuan Ge, Zhihong Guan and Gang Ye
A synchronous motion-based control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing on an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is proposed to address the problem of low accuracy or even failure of UAV landing on the surface of a USV under wave action. Firstl...
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Pavol Kurdel, Natália Gecejová, Marek Ce?kovic and Anna Yakovlieva
Unmanned aerial vehicle technology is the most advanced and helpful in almost every area of interest in human work. These devices become autonomous and can fulfil a variety of tasks, from simple imaging and obtaining data to search and rescue operations....
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Lizhen Wu, Chang Wang, Pengpeng Zhang and Changyun Wei
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing remains a challenge in uncertain environments, e.g., landing on a mobile ground platform such as an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) without knowing its motion dynamics. A traditional PID (Proportional, Integ...
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Hao Qi, Shi-Jie Cao, Jia-Yue Wu, Yi-Ming Peng, Hong Nie and Xiao-Hui Wei
The tail-sitter VTOL UAV boasts not only high-speed cruising and air hovering capabilities, but also its unique tail-sitting vertical takeoff and landing and hovering attitude enable aerial operations with an exceptionally small cross-sectional area. Thi...
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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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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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Carlo Giorgio Grlj, Nino Krznar and Marko Pranjic
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have advanced rapidly in the last two decades with the advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. It is crucial, however, to design better power supply technologies. In the last decade, lithium polymer and lith...
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Yi Feng, Cong Zhang, Stanley Baek, Samir Rawashdeh and Alireza Mohammadi
Developing methods for autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a mobile platform has been an active area of research over the past decade, as it offers an attractive solution for cases where rapid deployment and recovery of a fleet of U...
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Yi Feng, Cong Zhang, Stanley Baek, Samir Rawashdeh and Alireza Mohammadi
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Xin Dong, Yuzhe Gao, Jinglong Guo, Shiyu Zuo, Jinwu Xiang, Daochun Li and Zhan Tu
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) autonomous approaching and landing on mobile platforms always play an important role in various application scenarios. Such a complicated autonomous task requires an integrated multi-sensor system to guarantee environmenta...
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Boxin Li, Boyang Liu, Dapeng Han and Zhaokui Wang
The safe landing and rapid recovery of the reentry capsules are very important to manned spacecraft missions. A variety of uncertain factors, such as flight control accuracy and wind speed, lead to a low orbit prediction accuracy and a large landing rang...
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Pablo R. Palafox, Mario Garzón, João Valente, Juan Jesús Roldán and Antonio Barrientos
Autonomous takeoff, tracking, and landing maneuvers on a moving target with application to a fleet of robots with aerial and ground vehicles that need to operate for extended periods of time, as in Search and Rescue tasks.
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Fei Liu, Jiayao Shan, Binyu Xiong and Zheng Fang
This paper presents a real-time and multi-sensor-based landing area recognition system for UAVs, which aims to enable UAVs to land safely on open and flat terrain and is suitable for comprehensive unmanned autonomous operation. The landing area recogniti...
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Sunghun Jung
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively employed in civilian and military applications because of their excellent maneuverability. Achieving fully autonomous quadrotor flight and precision landing on a wireless charging station in the presence of...
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Chunyang Wang, Zhou Zhou and Rui Wang
The new vertical take-off and landing UAV meets the requirements of vertical take-off and landing and can cruise at high speed, which lays a good foundation for future military and civil fields.
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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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Cezary Kownacki, Leszek Ambroziak, Maciej Ciezkowski, Adam Wolniakowski, Slawomir Romaniuk, Zbigniew Kulesza, Arkadiusz Bozko and Daniel Oldziej
Various unmanned aerial vechicle (UAV) applications, especially those based on reconnaissance and observation missions, often require an unlimited time of flight. This is possible only when a UAV is continuously supplied with power from a ground-based po...
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Jiyu Xia and Zhou Zhou
The transition flight of tilt-propulsion UAV is a complex and time-varying process, which leads to great challenges in the design of a stable and robust controller. This work presents a unified model predictive controller, which can handle the full envel...
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Yanpeng Hu, Jin Guo, Pei Ying, Guannan Zeng and Nanyu Chen
This paper explores a novel single tail tilt servomotor tri-rotor ducted vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicle system (VTOL-UAV), and proposes a compound control method combining disturbance observer, model predictive control (MPC) and sli...
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Daniel Aláez, Xabier Olaz, Manuel Prieto, Pablo Porcellinis and Jesús Villadangos
With the increasing popularity of vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (VTOL UAVs), a new problem arises: pilot training. Most conventional pilot training simulators are designed for full-scale aircrafts, while most UAV simulators are j...
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