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Controlling AUVs can be challenging because of the effect of complex non-linear hydrodynamic forces acting on the robot, which are significant in water and cannot be ignored. The problem is exacerbated for small AUVs for which the dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Levi Cai , Kevin Chang , Yogesh Girdhar

The precise motion control of a multi-degree of freedom~(DOF) robot manipulator is always challenging due to its nonlinear dynamics, disturbances, and uncertainties. Because most manipulators are controlled by digital signals, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhian Kuang , Xiang Zhang , Liting Sun , Huijun Gao , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Stability and satisfactory performance are critical control requirements for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications. While conventional control systems for UAVs aim to ensure flight stability and safe operation while accomplishing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Khalid Kabir Dandago , Long Zhang , Wei Pan

This study presents a new hardware design and control of a minimally actuated 5 control degrees of freedom (CDoF) quadrotor-based tiltrotor. The proposed tiltrotor possesses several characteristics distinct from those found in existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongjae Lee , Sunwoo Hwang , Changhyeon Kim , Seung Jae Lee , H. Jin Kim

Enabling vertical take-off and landing while providing the ability to fly long ranges opens the door to a wide range of new real-world aircraft applications while improving many existing tasks. Tiltrotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Mohammadreza Mousaei , Junyi Geng , Azarakhsh Keipour , Dongwei Bai , Sebastian Scherer

This work develops a unified optimal control framework for a Quadrotor Biplane tailsitter UAV capable of operating seamlessly across hover, transition, and cruise flight regimes. Although the tailsitter configuration enables mechanically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Animesh Kumar Shastry , Mangal Kothari

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) are attaining more and more maneuverability and sensory ability as a promising teleoperation platform for intelligent interaction with the environments. This work presents a novel 5-degree-of-freedom (DoF)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Caiwu Ding , Hongwu Peng , Lu Lu , Caiwen Ding

This paper addresses modeling and control of a six-degree-of-freedom unmanned aerial vehicle capable of vertical take-off and landing in the presence of wind disturbances. We design a hybrid vehicle that combines the benefits of both the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Sunsoo Kim , Niladri Das , Raktim Bhattacharya

The ground effect on multicopters introduces several challenges, such as control errors caused by additional lift, oscillations that may occur during near-ground flight due to external torques, and the influence of ground airflow on models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Tiankai Yang , Kaixin Chai , Jialin Ji , Yuze Wu , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Quadrotors have demonstrated remarkable versatility, yet their full aerobatic potential remains largely untapped due to inherent underactuation and the complexity of aggressive maneuvers. Traditional approaches, separating trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zhichao Han , Xijie Huang , Zhuxiu Xu , Jiarui Zhang , Yuze Wu , Mingyang Wang , Tianyue Wu , Fei Gao

Rotor failures in quadrotors may result in high-speed rotation and vibration due to rotor imbalance, which introduces significant challenges for autonomous flight in unknown environments. The mainstream approaches against rotor failures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiaobin Zhou , Miao Wang , Chengao Li , Can Cui , Ruibin Zhang , Yongchao Wang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

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

An approach to the control of a VTOL vehicle equipped with complementary thrust-direction tilting capabilities that nominally yield full actuation of the vehicle's position and attitude is developed. The particularity and difficulty of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Minh-Duc Hua , Tarek Hamel , Claude Samson

In this paper, a reconfigurable control scheme for a generalized class of multicopters is presented to overcome single or multiple rotor failures. In a multicopter, the rotor failure heavily affects its dynamics and thus its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Hafiz Zeeshan Iqbal Khan , Jahanzeb Rajput , Jamshed Riaz

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

A model-based feasible control strategy for multi-rotor systems is presented, pursuing two control objectives simultaneously: Mechanical loads on the main tower are to be mitigated, and an externally determined power change is to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Horst Schulte , Urs Giger

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

This paper presents a control law for stabilization and trajectory tracking of a multicopter subject to safety constraints. The proposed approach guarantees forward invariance of a prescribed safety set while ensuring smooth tracking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado , Ankit Goel

This paper proposes a novel control framework for agile and robust bipedal locomotion, addressing model discrepancies between full-body and reduced-order models. Specifically, assumptions such as constant centroidal inertia have introduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Seung Hyeon Bang , Jaemin Lee , Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Sentis

Robot arms have been using in different systems, which the control of designed in desired trajectory is the main task. Also, it is anticipated that while in operation the developed 2DoF robot arm will be constantly encountered with noises…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Mehran Rahmani , Asif Al Zubayer Swapnil , Ivan Rulik