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Zhidong Lu, Haichao Hong and Florian Holzapfel
The advancement of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has expanded the horizon of urban air mobility. However, the challenge of generating precise vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) trajectories that comply with airworthiness requi...
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Maryam Taherinezhad and Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano
A cascade control architecture was proposed for the control of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles targeted for operation inside confined hazardous spaces. The aircraft of interest is a highly maneuverable system presenting highly coupled dynamics, enablin...
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Nadir Abbas, Zeshan Abbas and Xiaodong Liu
The rapid expansion of the Internet and communication technologies is leading to significant changes in both society and the economy. This development is driving the evolution of smart cities, which utilize cutting-edge technologies and data analysis to ...
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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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Chang-ho Ji, Chongsup Kim and Byoung Soo Kim
Highly maneuverable fighter aircraft are equipped with various weapons including a gun firing system for successful air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. In the gun firing system, the muzzle is usually positioned at an offset from the centerline of the ...
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Shaojie Zhang, Han Zhang and Kun Ji
In this paper, an incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI) control scheme is proposed for the attitude tracking of a helicopter with model uncertainties, and actuator delay and saturation constraints. A finite integral compensation based on model r...
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Kaiyang Guo, Pan Tang, Hui Wang, Defu Lin and Xiaoxi Cui
Landing on a moving platform is an essential requirement to achieve high-performance autonomous flight with various vehicles, including quadrotors. We propose an efficient and reliable autonomous landing system, based on model predictive control, which c...
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Chang-ho Ji, Chong-sup Kim and Byoung-Soo Kim
Highly maneuverability fighter aircrafts are equipped with various weapons for successful air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. The aircraft has abrupt transient response due to ejection force generated when store of one wing is launched and the movemen...
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Patrick Piprek, Michael M. Marb, Pranav Bhardwaj and Florian Holzapfel
This study proposes a novel, nonlinear trajectory/path-following controller based on jerk-level error dynamics. Therefore, at first the nonlinear acceleration-based kinematic equations of motion of a dynamic system are differentiated with respect to time...
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Lingquan Cheng, Yiyang Li, Jiayi Yuan, Jianliang Ai and Yiqun Dong
Morphing aircraft are able to keep optimal performance in diverse flight conditions. However, the change in geometry always leads to challenges in the design of flight controllers. In this paper, a new method for designing a flight controller for variabl...
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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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José Azinheira, Reginaldo Carvalho, Ely Paiva and Rafael Cordeiro
This paper proposes a new kind of airship actuator configuration for surveillance and environmental monitoring missions. We present the design and application of a six-propeller electrical airship (Noamini) with independent tilting propellers, allowing i...
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Umberto Saetti, Jonathan Rogers, Mushfiqul Alam and Michael Jump
A novel trajectory generation and control architecture for fully autonomous autorotative flare that combines rapid path generation with model-based control is proposed. The trajectory generation component uses optical Tau theory to compute flare trajecto...
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Swantje Romig, Luc Jaulin and Andreas Rauh
In recent years, many applications, as well as theoretical properties of interval analysis have been investigated. Without any claim for completeness, such applications and methodologies range from enclosing the effect of round-off errors in highly accur...
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Kai Masuda and Kenji Uchiyama
This paper describes the design method of a flight control system of a Quad Tilt-Wing (QTW) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). A QTW-UAV is necessary to design a controller considering its nonlinear dynamics because of the appearance of the nonlinearity duri...
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Kai Masuda and Kenji Uchiyama
This paper describes the design method of a flight control system of a Quad Tilt-Wing (QTW) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). A QTW-UAV is necessary to design a controller considering its nonlinear dynamics because of the appearance of the nonlinearity duri...
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Lixin Wang, Kun Yang, Peng Zhao and Ting Yue
For aircraft employing the fly-by-wire technique, the closed-loop dynamic characteristics are determined by both the configuration design and the flight control system. As the capacity of the control system has certain limitations, the configuration para...
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