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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in confined, cluttered environments face significant performance degradation due to nonlinear, time-varying unmodeled dynamics-such as ground/ceiling effects and wake recirculation-that are…

Subspace identification method (SIM) has been proven to be very useful and numerically robust for estimating state-space models. However, it is in general not believed to be as accurate as the prediction error method (PEM). Conversely, PEM,…

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