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This paper introduces an adaptive-neuro geometric control for a centralized multi-quadrotor cooperative transportation system, which enhances both adaptivity and disturbance rejection. Our strategy is to coactively tune the model parameters…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tianhua Gao , Kohji Tomita , Akiya Kamimura

This paper applies geometric PID control for asymptotic tracking of a desired trajectory by a hoop robot in the presence of disturbances and uncertainties. The hoop robot, consisting of a circular body rolling without slip along a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-28 T. W. U. Madhushani , D. H. S. Maithripala , J. M. Berg

This paper introduces an $\mathcal{L}_1$ adaptive control augmentation for geometric tracking control of quadrotors. In the proposed design, the $\mathcal{L}_1$ augmentation handles nonlinear (time- and state-dependent) uncertainties in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Zhuohuan Wu , Sheng Cheng , Kasey A. Ackerman , Aditya Gahlawat , Arun Lakshmanan , Pan Zhao , Naira Hovakimyan

This letter considers cascaded model predictive control (MPC) as a computationally lightweight method for controlling a tandem-rotor helicopter. A traditional single MPC structure is split into separate outer and inner-loops. The outer-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Faraaz Ahmed , Ludwik Sobiesiak , James Richard Forbes

Accurate dynamics modeling is essential for quadrotors to achieve precise trajectory tracking in various applications. Traditional physical knowledge-driven modeling methods face substantial limitations in unknown environments characterized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mengyun Wang , Bo Wang , Yifeng Niu , Chang Wang

This paper presents a two-stage trajectory planning framework for a multi-UAV rigid-payload cascaded transportation system, aiming to address planning challenges in densely cluttered environments. In Stage I, an Enhanced Tube-RRT* algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jianqiao Yu , Jia Li , Tianhua Gao

This article presents a tracking control framework enhanced by an extended state observer for a rotorcraft aerial vehicle modeled as a rigid body in three-dimensional translational and rotational motions. The system is considered as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Ningshan Wang , Reza Hamrah , Amit K. Sanyal , Mark N. Glauser

The quadrotor is a $6$ degrees-of-freedom (DoF) system with underactuation. Adding a spherical pendulum on top of a quadrotor further complicates the task of achieving any output tracking while stabilizing the rest. In this report, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xichen Shi , Yashwanth Kumar Nakka

Robust adaptive control methods are essential for maintaining quadcopter performance under external disturbances and model uncertainties. However, fragmented evaluations across tasks, simulators, and implementations hinder systematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dingqi Zhang , Ran Tao , Sheng Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan , Mark W. Mueller

A new disturbance observer based control scheme is developed for a quadrotor under the concurrent disturbances from a lightweight elastic tether cable and a lumped vertical disturbance. This elastic tether is unusual as it creates a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Benjamin J. Marshall , Yunda Yan , James Knowles , Chenguang Yang , Cunjia Liu

This paper presents an agile Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing control by considering the effect of ship's oscillations and moving, and also disturbance (i.e., crosswind) is considered. The presented control system can make the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 James Mordaunt , Xinhua Wang

This work introduces a novel paradigm for solving optimal control problems for hybrid dynamical systems under uncertainties. Robotic systems having contact with the environment can be modeled as hybrid systems. Controller design for hybrid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Hongzhe Yu , Diana Frias Franco , Aaron M. Johnson , Yongxin Chen

We propose a command-filter backstepping controller that integrates a disturbance observer and a high-gain observer (HGO) to handle unknown internal and external disturbances acting on a quadrotor. To build the controller, we first define…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Mustafa Mohammed Mustafa

Many multirotor Unmanned Aerial Systems applications have a critical need for precise position control in environments with strong dynamic external disturbances such as wind gusts or ground and wall effects. Moreover, to maximize flight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Daniel Hentzen , Thomas Stastny , Roland Siegwart , Roland Brockers

This paper is focused on tracking control for a rigid body payload, that is connected to an arbitrary number of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles via rigid links. A geometric adaptive controller is constructed such that the payload…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Taeyoung Lee

This work presents a geometric backstepping controller for a variable-tilt omnidirectional multirotor that explicitly accounts for both servo and rotor dynamics. Considering actuator dynamics is essential for more effective and reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jaewoo Lee , Dongjae Lee , Jinwoo Lee , Hyungyu Lee , Yeonjoon Kim , H. Jin Kim

In this paper, we prove that the dynamical model of a quadrotor subject to linear rotor drag effects is differentially flat in its position and heading. We use this property to compute feed-forward control terms directly from a reference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Matthias Faessler , Antonio Franchi , Davide Scaramuzza

Platoon formation with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in a mixed traffic environment poses significant challenges due to the presence of human-driven vehicles (HDVs) with unknown dynamics and control actions. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Bidirectional thrust grants quadrotors a second equilibrium condition and increased control authority, expanding the envelope of possible aggressive maneuvers and enabling inverted flight, perching, and sensing. Prior geometric control…

Delayed feedback control is an easy realizable control method which generates control force by comparing the current and the delayed version of the system states. In this paper, a new form of the delayed feedback structure is introduced.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Zahed Dastan , Mahsan Tavakoli-Kakhki