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This paper presents a trajectory-tracking controller for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in scenarios where only the desired position and heading are known without the higher-order derivatives. The proposed solution modifies the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Yogesh Kumar , S. B. Roy , P. B. Sujit

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in search and rescue missions, a trend driven by technological advancements, including enhancements in automation, avionics, and the reduced cost of electronics. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

In this letter, we present an uncertainty-aware single-anchor Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-based 3D tracking framework. Specifically, a mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) maintains a desired standoff distance to a moving target using range and 3D…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Yuqi Ping , Junwei Wu , Bofeng Zheng , Fan Liu , Tianhao Liang , Tingting Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) offers lots of applications in both commerce and recreation. With this, monitoring the operation status of UAVs is crucially important. In this work, we consider the task of tracking UAVs, providing rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Nan Jiang , Kuiran Wang , Xiaoke Peng , Xuehui Yu , Qiang Wang , Junliang Xing , Guorong Li , Jian Zhao , Guodong Guo , Zhenjun Han

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are now becoming increasingly accessible to amateur and com-mercial users alike. Several types of airspace structures are proposed in recent research, which include several structured free flight concepts. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Rao Fu , Quan Quan , Mengxin Li , Kai-Yuan Cai

This paper provides nonlinear tracking control systems for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that are robust to bounded uncertainties. A mathematical model of a quadrotor UAV is defined on the special Euclidean group, and nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

Aerial tracking, which has exhibited its omnipresent dedication and splendid performance, is one of the most active applications in the remote sensing field. Especially, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing system, equipped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Changhong Fu , Bowen Li , Fangqiang Ding , Fuling Lin , Geng Lu

In this paper, we present a novel decentralized controller to drive multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into a symmetric formation of regular polygon shape surrounding a mobile target. The proposed controller works for time-varying…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Rajdeep Dutta , Chunjiang Qian , Liang Sun , Daniel Pack

This work considers the problem of passively monitoring multiple moving targets with a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent equipped with a direction-finding radar. This is in general a challenging problem due to the unobservability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Savvas Papaioannou , Christos Laoudias , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with on-board cameras are widely used for remote surveillance and video capturing applications. In remote virtual reality (VR) applications, multiple UAVs can be used to capture different partially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most revolutionary inventions of 21st century. At the core of a UAV lies the central processing system that uses wireless signals to control their movement. The most popular UAVs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mohit Arora , Pratyush Shukla , Shivali Chopra

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer from sensor drifts in GPS denied environments, which can cause safety issues. To avoid intolerable sensor drifts while completing the time-critical coordination task for multi-UAV systems, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Yikun Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros G. Voulgaris , Lui Sha

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control problem for underactuated VTOL UAVs. According to the different actuation mechanisms, the most common UAV platforms can achieve only a partial decoupling of attitude and position tasks.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Davide Invernizzi , Marco Lovera , Luca Zaccarian

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in mission-critical applications such as target tracking, where they must simultaneously sense dynamic environments, ensure reliable communication, and achieve precise control. A key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Zhiyu Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Songfu Cai , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

Cooperative control of multi-UAV systems has attracted substantial research attention due to its significance in various application sectors such as emergency response, search and rescue missions, and critical infrastructure inspection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Angelos Zacharia , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos Panayiotou

Correlation filter-based tracking has been widely applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with high efficiency. However, it has two imperfections, i.e., boundary effect and filter corruption. Several methods enlarging the search area can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yiming Li , Changhong Fu , Ziyuan Huang , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan

The rapid development of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technology has spawned a wide variety of applications, such as emergency communications, regional surveillance, and disaster relief. Due to their limited battery capacity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Yang , Tao Yang , Xiaofeng Wu , Bo Hu

In multi-target tracking, sensor control involves dynamically configuring sensors to achieve improved tracking performance. Many of these techniques focus on sensors with memoryless states (e.g., waveform adaptation, beam scheduling, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Donald J. Bucci , Pramod K. Varshney

Robust cooperative formation control is investigated in this paper for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in close formation flight to save energy. A novel cooperative control method is developed. The concept of virtual structure is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Qingrui Zhang , Hugh H. T. Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is critical for applications like surveillance, search-and-rescue, and autonomous navigation. However, the high-speed movement of UAVs and targets introduces unique challenges, including real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 You Wu , Xucheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Hengzhou Ye , Xiaolan Xie , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li