The stability and trajectory control of a quadrotor carrying a suspended load with a fixed known mass has been extensively studied in recent years. However, the load mass is not always known beforehand in practical applications. This mass uncertainty brings uncertain disturbances to the quadrotor system, causing existing controllers to have a worse performance or to be collapsed. To improve the...

Quadrotor UAVs have successfully been used both in research and for commercial applications in recent years and there has been significant progress in the design of robust control software and hardware. Nevertheless, testing of prototype UAV systems still means risk of damage due to failures. Motivated by this, a system for the comprehensive simulation of quadrotor UAVs is presented in this pap...

A possible design method for learning motion control consists of using a model-based optimal control algorithm to initialize the policy of a sampling based reinforcement learning algorithm. In this paper, the initial control trajectory design is performed for a quadrotor with a cable-suspended load using the iterative LQG (iLQG) algorithm. The hybrid model of the quadrotor with the load is intr...

This paper deals with the design of a high gain observer and sliding mode controller for a remotely controlled quadrotor vertical take off and landing aircraft. Under the restriction that only the inertial coordinates and yaw angle are available for measurement, a high gain observer is designed which allows estimating on-line the roll and pitching angles as well as all the linear and angular ve...

The work proposed in this paper aim to design tow controllers for attitude stabilization of a Quadrotor UAV. The first is a classical PID controller; the second is a nonlinear state feedback controller which designed using multiple model approach. We start with the design of a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) model for Quadrotor modelling, and then we use Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI), and PDC (Parallel Di...

This paper presents the design and real-time experimental results of a fault diagnosis scheme for inertial measurement unit (IMU) measurements of quadrotor unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The objective is to detect, isolate, and estimate sensor bias fault in accelerometer and gyroscope measurements. Based on the quadrotor dynamics and sensor models under consideration, the effects of sensor fault...

In this paper, a Levenberg-Marquardt inspired sliding mode control theory based adaptation laws are proposed to train an intelligent fuzzy neural network controller for a quadrotor aircraft. The proposed controller is used to control and stabilize a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle in the presence of periodic wind gust. A proportional-derivative controller is firstly introduced based on which ...

Based on two successfully and widely used control techniques in many industrial applications under normal (fault-free) operation conditions, the Gain-Scheduled Proportional-Integral-Derivative (GS-PID) control and Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) strategies have been extended, implemented, and experimentally tested on a quadrotor helicopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) testbed available...

This paper presents the mathematical development of a body-centric nonlinear dynamic model of a quadrotor UAV that is suitable for the development of biologically inspired navigation strategies. Analytical approximations are used to find an initial guess of the parameters of the nonlinear model, then parameter estimation methods are used to refine the model parameters using the data obtained fr...

In this paper, a tracking controller is formulated for a quadrotor to track a moving ground target. The quadrotor exhibits distinct hierarchical dynamics that allows its position to be controlled by its attitude. This motivates the use of backstepping control on the underactuated quadrotor. Most backstepping architecture controls the quadrotor position and attitude independently, and couples th...