An Adaptive Control Framework for the Autonomous Aerobatic Maneuvers of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Path Tracking Control for a Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

This paper presents an adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) for the path tracking control of a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. The objective is to minimize the mean and maximum error between the reference trajectory and the UAV. Navigating in a cluttered environment requires accurate tracking. However linear controllers cannot provide good tracking performance due to nonlinearities ...

Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fuzzy Adaptive Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Carrying Time-Varying Cargo on Predefined Path

At present, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been increased dramatically. The reasons for this development are cheapness, smallness, simplicity, and diversity of missions. The simplicity of guidance and control of multi-rotor drones is that they are equipped with an autopilot system. This system is responsible for flying control. UAVs do not have a high weight and often have three...

Autonomous Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

This thesis presents the system architecture for landing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from a hovering position without the intervention of a human operator. Through the use of feedback information from a height sensor, the UAV is commanded to perform controlled descent with the desired landing parameters by implementation of the flight control laws. The plant model of the system was determi...

From Motion Planning to Control - A Navigation Framework for an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which can operate autonomously in dynamic and complex operational environments is becoming increasingly more common. While the application domains in which they are currently used are still predominantly military in nature, in the future we can expect widespread usage in the civil and commercial sectors. In order to insert such vehicles into commercial...