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Kunfeng Lu, Ruiguang Hu, Zheng Yao and Huixia Wang
Trajectory planning and obstacle avoidance play essential roles in the cooperative flight of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, a unified framework for onboard distributed trajectory planning is proposed, which takes full advantage ...
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Tayyab Manzoor, Hailong Pei, Zhongqi Sun and Zihuan Cheng
This paper proposes a model predictive control (MPC) approach for ducted fan aerial robots using physics-informed machine learning (ML), where the task is to fully exploit the capabilities of the predictive control design with an accurate dynamic model b...
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Dinh Dung Nguyen, Jozsef Rohacs and Daniel Rohacs
With the exponential growth of numerous drone operations ranging from infrastructure monitoring to even package delivery services, the integration of UAS in the smart city transportation systems is an actual task that requires radically new, sustainable ...
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Fenyu Jiang and Chris Phillips
As a result of their high mobility and reduced cost, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been found to be a promising tool in wireless networks. A UAV can perform the role of a base station as well as a mobile relay, connecting distant ground terminals....
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Tong Lin, Mingying Huo, Naiming Qi, Jianfeng Wang, Tianchen Wang, Haopeng Gu and Yiming Zhang
Electroaerodynamic unmanned aerial vehicles (EAD-UAVs) are innovative UAVs that use high-voltage asymmetric electrodes to ionize air molecules and Coulomb force to push these ions to produce thrust. Unlike fixed-wing and rotor UAVs, EAD-UAVs contain no m...
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Leyang Zhao, Li Yan, Xiao Hu, Jinbiao Yuan and Zhenbao Liu
The ability of an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in an unknown environment is a prerequisite for its execution of complex tasks and is the main research direction in related fields. The autonomous navigation of UAVs in unknown environments requ...
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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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Michal Welcer, Nezar Sahbon and Albert Zajdel
Modern aviation technology development heavily relies on computer simulations. SIL (Software-In-The-Loop) simulations are essential for evaluating autopilots and control algorithms for multi-rotors, including drones and other UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicl...
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Shuzhen Li, Yuzhe Li, Junlin Zhu and Bin Liu
UAV formation keeping is an important research element due to its cooperative formation control. This study proposes a passive positioning model for UAVs based on the Monte Carlo strategy and provides a trajectory programming decision scheme based on the...
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Yanbo Fu, Wenjie Zhao and Liu Liu
Ducted-fan tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide versatility and unique benefits, attracting significant attention in various applications. This study focuses on developing a safe reinforcement learning method for back-transition control be...
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Yunhong Yang, Xingzhong Xiong and Yuehao Yan
With the continuous development of UAV technology and swarm intelligence technology, the UAV formation cooperative mission has attracted wide attention because of its remarkable function and flexibility to complete complex and changeable tasks, such as s...
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Enrique Aldao, Luis M. González-deSantos, Humberto Michinel and Higinio González-Jorge
In this work, a real-time collision avoidance algorithm was presented for autonomous navigation in the presence of fixed and moving obstacles in building environments. The current implementation is designed for autonomous navigation between waypoints of ...
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Bohai Deng and Jinfa Xu
The compound unmanned aircraft is provided with three primary flight modes, which are helicopter flight mode in low forward speed flight, airplane flight mode in high forward speed flight and transition flight mode in middle forward speed flight. For the...
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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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Bailun Jiang, Boyang Li, Weifeng Zhou, Li-Yu Lo, Chih-Keng Chen and Chih-Yung Wen
A dynamic model that considers both linear and complex nonlinear effects extensively benefits the model-based controller development. However, predicting a detailed aerodynamic model with good accuracy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is challenging d...
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Claudio Pascarelli, Manuela Marra, Giulio Avanzini and Angelo Corallo
Planning and executing missions in terms of trajectory generation are challenging problems in the operational phase of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) lifecycle. The growing adoption of UAVs in several civil applications requires the definition of precis...
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Babak Salamat and Andrea M. Tonello
The aim of this paper is to provide a realistic stochastic trajectory generation method for unmanned aerial vehicles that offers a tool for the emulation of trajectories in typical flight scenarios. Three scenarios are defined in this paper. The trajecto...
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Babak Salamat and Andrea M. Tonello
The aim of this paper is to provide a realistic stochastic trajectory generation method for unmanned aerial vehicles that offers a tool for the emulation of trajectories in typical flight scenarios. Three scenarios are defined in this paper. The trajecto...
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Mousumi Ahmed and Kamesh Subbarao
This paper presents an estimation based backstepping like control law design for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to track a moving target in 3-D space. A ground-based sensor or an onboard seeker antenna provides range, azimuth angle, and elevation angle...
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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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