Thrust Control for Multirotor Aerial Vehicles

Development of Flight Path Planning for Multirotor Aerial Vehicles

This study addresses the flight-path planning problem for multirotor aerial vehicles (AVs). We consider the specific features and requirements of real-time flight-path planning and develop a rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm to determine a preliminary flight path in three-dimensional space. Since the path obtained by the RRT may not be optimal due to the existence of redundant waypo...

Attitude Determination of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles Using Camera Vector Measurements

The employment of embedded cameras in navigation and guidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has attracted the focus of many academic researches. In particular, for the multirotor UAV, the camera is widely employed for applications performed in indoor environments, where the GNSS signal is often unreliable and electromagnetic interference can be a concern. In the literature, images are mostl...

Integrated flight/thrust vectoring control for jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles with ACHEON propulsion

Control of Thrust-Propelled Underactuated Vehicles

Evolving Control for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs)

This paper further explores the use of a genetic algorithm for the purposes of evolving the control systems for distributed micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The control systems are essentially evolved rule sets which take into account target surveillance area coverage and built in sensors in the MAV. As in previous work where the overall task is distributed, the same rule set is contained in each ...