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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

Classical Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control has been widely successful across various industrial systems such as chemical processes, robotics, and power systems. However, as these systems evolved, the increase in the nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Waleed Razzaq

The expectation of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) pushes the operation environment to narrow spaces, where the systems may fly very close to an object and perform an interaction. This phase brings the variation in UAV dynamics: thrust and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Mohamad Abdul Hady , Basaran Bahadir Kocer , Harikumar Kandath , Mahardhika Pratama

The techniques of precision agriculture include the possibility to execute crop monitoring tasks through the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). These platforms are flexible, easy to use and low-cost, and they are the best…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Martina Mammarella , Elisa Capello

This review explores the theoretical foundations and experimental dynamics of modern tiltrotor aircraft. Emphasizing feedback linearization, the study delves into the distinctive constraints and angular velocity ranges shaping tiltrotor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Hans Oersted , Yudong Ma

This paper addresses the problem of tracking control for robotic vehicles equipped with pivoted unidirectional actuators. Starting from a baseline robust controller that assumes unconstrained inputs, we redesign the control law to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ian J. Willebeek-LeMair , Craig A. Woolsey

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have greatly revolutionized the process of gathering and analyzing data in diverse research domains, providing unmatched adaptability and effectiveness. This paper presents a thorough examination of Unmanned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Md. Mahfuzur Rahman , Sunzida Siddique , Marufa Kamal , Rakib Hossain Rifat , Kishor Datta Gupta

The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, flexibility, and adaptive altitude, UAVs admit several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Han Nam , Merouane Debbah

Since the classical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller has continued to be the most widely used feedback methods in engineering systems by far, it is crucial to investigate the working mechanism of PID in dealing with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Baoyou Qu , Cheng Zhao

Control theory provides engineers with a multitude of tools to design controllers that manipulate the closed-loop behavior and stability of dynamical systems. These methods rely heavily on insights about the mathematical model governing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Simen Theie Havenstrøm , Camilla Sterud , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

Intelligent aerial platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to revolutionize various fields, including transportation, traffic management, field monitoring, industrial production, and agricultural management. Among…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Huy-Hoang Ngo , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Xiem HoangVan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), initially developed for military applications, are now used in various fields. As UAVs become more common across multiple industries, it is crucial to understand how to adopt them effectively, efficiently,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sara Habibi , Naghmeh Ivaki , João Barata

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control is the most widely used in industrial control, robot control and other fields. However, traditional PID control is not competent when the system cannot be accurately modeled and the operating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xinyi Yu , Yuehai Fan , Siyu Xu , Linlin Ou

Carrier landing of aircrafts is a challenge for control due to the existence of nonlinear wind disturbances and the requirements of changing reference trajectories. In this paper, a robust landing control system is presented for carrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Mikhail Kistyarev , Xinhua Wang

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are currently widely used in safety-critical fields such as industrial production, military operations, and disaster relief. Due to the diversity and complexity of application scenarios, UAS have become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jianyu Zhang , Long Zhang , Yixuan Wu , Linru Ma , Feng Yang

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

It is well-known that the classical PID controller is by far the most widely used ones in industrial processes, despite of the remarkable progresses of the modern control theory over the past half a century. It is also true that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Cheng Zhao , Lei Guo

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) play a crucial role in surveying marine environments, carrying out underwater inspection tasks, and ocean exploration. However, in order to ensure that the AUV is able to carry out its mission…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pierre Nicolay , Yvan Petillot , Mykhaylo Marfeychuk , Sen Wang , Ignacio Carlucho

Hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrate the efficient forward flight of fixed-wing and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities of multicopter UAVs. This paper presents the modeling, control and simulation of a new type of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Quan Quan , Wang Shuai , Gao Wenhan

This paper presents the development of a comprehensive dynamics and stabilizing control architecture for Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) systems. The proposed architecture integrates both onboard and ground-based controllers,…

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