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In this paper, we present a novel cascade control structure with formal guarantees of uniform almost global asymptotic stability for the state tracking error dynamics of a quadcopter. The proposed approach features a model predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Maedeh Izadi , A. T. J. R. Cobbenhagen , Ruben Sommer , A. R. P. Andriën , Erjen Lefeber , W. P. M. H. Heemels

This paper proposes the ProxFly, a residual deep Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based controller for close proximity quadcopter flight. Specifically, we design a residual module on top of a cascaded controller (denoted as basic controller) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Ruiqi Zhang , Dingqi Zhang , Mark W. Mueller

This paper proposed a novel fully-actuated hexacopter. It features a dual-frame passive tilting structure and achieves independent control of translational motion and attitude with minimal actuators. Compared to previous fully-actuated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jiajun Liu , Yimin Zhu , Xiaorui Liu , Mingye Cao , Mingchao Li , Lixian Zhang

We present a novel, high-performance attitude control law for multicopters, with a view to recovery from large disturbances. The controller is compared to three well-established alternatives from the literature. All controllers considered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mark Wilfried Mueller

In this paper, we present a novel developmental reinforcement learning-based controller for a quadcopter with thrust vectoring capabilities. This multirotor UAV design has tilt-enabled rotors. It utilizes the rotor force magnitude and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Aditya M. Deshpande , Rumit Kumar , Ali A. Minai , Manish Kumar

This paper proposes an adaptive near-hover position controller for quadcopters, which can be deployed to quadcopters of very different mass, size and motor constants, and also shows rapid adaptation to unknown disturbances during runtime.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dingqi Zhang , Antonio Loquercio , Xiangyu Wu , Ashish Kumar , Jitendra Malik , Mark W. Mueller

The purpose of this paper is to present the control system design of Tricopter. We have presented the implementation of control system in software in this paper. Tricopter's control system mainly consists of two parts Complimentary filter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Vishal P Venkata , Natarajan V

Fault-tolerant control is crucial for safety-critical systems, such as quadrotors. State-of-art flight controllers can stabilize and control a quadrotor even when subjected to the complete loss of a rotor. However, these methods rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Sihao Sun , Giovanni Cioffi , Coen de Visser , Davide Scaramuzza

Nonlinear PID control systems for a quadrotor UAV are proposed to follow an attitude tracking command and a position tracking command. The control systems are developed directly on the special Euclidean group to avoid singularities of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Farhad Goodarzi , Daewon Lee , Taeyoung Lee

A Nonlinear PID (NLPID) controller is proposed to stabilize the translational and rotational motion of a 6-DOF UAV quadrotor system and enforce it to track a given trajectory with minimum energy and error. The complete nonlinear model of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Aws Abdulsalam Najm , Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem

Electric quadruped robots used in outdoor exploration are susceptible to leg-related electrical or mechanical failures. Unexpected joint power loss and joint locking can immediately pose a falling threat. Typically, controllers lack the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Taixian Hou , Jiaxin Tu , Xiaofei Gao , Zhiyan Dong , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of designing a trajectory tracking control law for a quadrotor UAV, subsequent to complete failure of a single rotor. The control design problem considers the reduced state space which excludes the angular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Ashutosh Simha , Sharvaree Vadgama , Soumyendu Raha

This paper presents the design, implementation, and flight test results of linear quadratic integral regulator (LQRi) based attitude control for a quadcopter UAV. We present the derivation of the mathematical model for the kinematics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Astik Srivastava , S. Indu , Richa Sharma

The main objective of this work is demonstrated through two main aspects. The first is the design of an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) controller to develop the attitude and altitude of a quadcopter. The second is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammad Al-Fetyani , Mones Azazma

This study has developed a fault-tolerant controller that is able to recover a quadrotor from arbitrary initial orientations and angular velocities, despite the complete failure of a rotor. This cascaded control method includes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sihao Sun , Matthias Baert , Bram Adriaan Strack van Schijndel , Coen de Visser

Overactuated Tilt Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are renowned for exceptional wind resistance and a broad operational range, which poses complex control challenges due to non-affine dynamics. Traditional solutions employ multi-state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Alessandro Mancinelli , Bart D. W. Remes , Guido C. H. E. de Croon , Ewoud J. J. Smeur

Safe control for inherently unstable systems such as quadrotors is crucial. Imposing multiple dynamic constraints simultaneously on the states for safety regulation can be a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a quadratic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mouhyemen Khan , Munzir Zafar , Abhijit Chatterjee

In this paper, we present a deep reinforcement learning method for quadcopter bypassing the obstacle on the flying path. In the past study, the algorithm only controls the forward direction about quadcopter. In this letter, we use two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Tung-Cheng Wu , Shau-Yin Tseng , Chin-Feng Lai , Chia-Yu Ho , Ying-Hsun Lai

This paper develops and experimentally evaluates a navigation function for quadrotor formation flight that is resilient to abrupt quadrotor failures and other obstacles. The navigation function is based on modeling healthy quadrotors as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Matthew Romano , Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

This paper considers the controllability analysis problem for a class of multirotor systems subject to rotor failure/wear. It is shown that classical controllability theories of linear systems are not sufficient to test the controllability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Guang-Xun Du , Quan Quan , Binxian Yang , Kai-Yuan Cai