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Purpose: Real-life applications using quadrotors introduce a number of disturbances and time-varying properties that pose a challenge to flight controllers. We observed that, when a quadrotor is tasked with picking up and dropping a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Guilherme Siqueira Eduardo , Wouter Caarls

A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions. The main challenges are to control both the relative positions and angles between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hsin-Ai Hung , Hao-Huan Hsu , Teng-Hu Cheng

This paper presents a static-equilibrium oriented interaction force modeling and control approach of aerial manipulation employing uni-directional thrust (UDT) multirotors interacting with variously defined environments. First, a simplified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Tong Hui , Matteo Fumagalli

This work studies how parametric uncertainties affect the cooperative manipulation of a cable-suspended beam-shaped load by means of two aerial robots not explicitly communicating with each other. In particular, the work sheds light on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Chiara Gabellieri , Marco Tognon , Dario Sanalitro , Antonio Franchi

Though control algorithms for multirotor Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) are well understood, the configuration, parameter estimation, and tuning of flight control algorithms takes quite some time and resources. In previous work, we have shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Till M. Blaha , Ewoud J. J. Smeur , Bart D. W. Remes , Coen C. de Visser

This paper addresses the modeling and attitude control of jumping quadrupeds in low-gravity environments. First, a convex decomposition procedure is presented to generate high-accuracy and low-cost collision geometries for quadrupeds…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Michail Papadakis , Jørgen Anker Olsen , Ioannis Poulakakis , Kostas Alexis

The quadrotor task of negotiating aggressive attitude maneuvers while adhering to motor constraints is addressed here. The majority of high level quadrotor Nonlinear Control System (NCS) solutions ignore motor control authority limitations,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Michalis Ramp , Evangelos Papadopoulos

A special type of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), called Quadcopter have prevailed to the civilian use for the past decade. They have gained significant amount of attention within the UAV community for their redundancy and ease…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Mojtaba Hedayatpour , Mehran Mehrandezh , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

Aerial transportation using quadrotors with cable-suspended payloads holds great potential for applications in disaster response, logistics, and infrastructure maintenance. However, their hybrid and underactuated dynamics pose significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Luis F. Recalde , Mrunal Sarvaiya , Giuseppe Loianno , Guanrui Li

The task of flying in tight formations is challenging for teams of quadrotors because the complex aerodynamic wake interactions can destabilize individual team members as well as the team. Furthermore, these aerodynamic effects are highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Pei-An Hsieh , Kong Yao Chee , M. Ani Hsieh

This paper presents QuadSoft, a novel fully actuated quadrotor equipped with continuous-curvature, tendon-driven soft robotic arms. The design combines a semi-rigid central frame with flexible arms, enabling controlled structural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Rodolfo Verdin , Hugo Moreno , Mark W. Spong , Gerardo Flores

Modern unmanned systems, including aerial, terrestrial, and underwater vehicles, are increasingly utilized in dynamic and unpredictable environments, where the presence of modeling uncertainties necessitates the development of robust and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Maryam Norouzi , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

Co-simulation is a critical approach for the design and analysis of complex cyber-physical systems. It will enhance development efficiency and reduce costs. This paper presents a co-simulation framework integrating ROS 2 and MATLAB/Simulink…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Hangyu Teng

The complex tasks such as surveillance, construction, search and rescue can benefit of the maneuverability of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to obtain robust, cooperative system behavior and formation control is a prominent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-09 I. Kagan Erunsal , Rodrigo Ventura , Alcherio Martinoli

In this paper, a robust nonlinear control scheme is proposed for a nonlinear multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system subject to bounded time varying uncertainty which satisfies a certain integral quadratic constraint condition. The scheme…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Obaid Ur Rehman , Ian R. Petersen , Barış Fidan

We consider the hovering control problem for a class of multi-rotor aerial platforms with generically oriented propellers. Given the intrinsically coupled translational and rotational dynamics of such vehicles, we first discuss some…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Giulia Michieletto , Angelo Cenedese , Luca Zaccarian , Antonio Franchi

Capturing target objects using the quadrotor has gained increasing popularity in recent years, but most studies focus on capturing lightweight objects. The instantaneous contact force generated when capturing objects of a certain mass,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Xinqi Chen , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) quadrotor is a UAV with four rotors. The quadrotor control is a difficult task because the four-wheel system is inefficient. The purpose of this paper is to provide specifications and implement a separate quad…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-15 A. M. El-Edkawy , M. A. El-Dosuky

In this paper, a new under-actuated Bi-Quadcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is introduced. The proposed drone configuration can be controlled similar to a Bicopter. The dynamics of the proposed Bi-Quadcopter is developed using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Vijay Reddy Vundela , Vijay Muralidharan

This paper presents an aggressiveness-aware control framework for quadrotor UAVs that integrates learning-based oracles to mitigate the effects of unknown disturbances. Starting from a nominal tracking controller on $\mathrm{SE}(3)$,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Leonardo Colombo , Thomas Beckers , Juan Giribet