Issue 1-2/2019
Special Issue: Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Part II
Content (27 Articles)
An Adaptive Dynamic Controller for Quadrotor to Perform Trajectory Tracking Tasks
Milton Cesar Paes Santos, Claudio Darío Rosales, Jorge Antonio Sarapura, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho, Ricardo Carelli
Collision-Free Trajectory Generation and Tracking for UAVs Using Markov Decision Process in a Cluttered Environment
Xiang Yu, Xiaobin Zhou, Youmin Zhang
A Real-Time 3D Path Planning Solution for Collision-Free Navigation of Multirotor Aerial Robots in Dynamic Environments
Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Min Wang, Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez, Martin Molina, Holger Voos
Robust Trajectory Tracking for Unmanned Aircraft Systems using a Nonsingular Terminal Modified Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Controller
Filiberto Muñoz, Eduardo S. Espinoza, Iván González-Hernández, Sergio Salazar, Rogelio Lozano
Quadcopter Path Following Control. A Maneuvering Approach
José Luis Mendoza-Soto, José J. Corona-Sánchez, H. Rodríguez- Cortés
Spatial Modeling and Robust Flight Control Based on Adaptive Sliding Mode Approach for a Quadrotor MAV
Herman Castañeda, J. L. Gordillo
Applying Frontier Cells Based Exploration and Lazy Theta* Path Planning over Single Grid-Based World Representation for Autonomous Inspection of Large 3D Structures with an UAS
Margarida Faria, Ivan Maza, Antidio Viguria
Observer-Based Time-Varying Backstepping Control for a Quadrotor Multi-Agent System
Marcos A. Rosaldo-Serrano, Jesús Santiaguillo-Salinas, Eduardo Aranda-Bricaire
Real-Time UAS Guidance for Continuous Curved GNSS Approaches
Alessandro Gardi, Roberto Sabatini, Subramanian Ramasamy, Trevor Kistan
Fault-Tolerant Containment Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based on Distributed Sliding-Mode Observer
Ziquan Yu, Yaohong Qu, Youmin Zhang
Parametric Study on Formation Flying Effectiveness for a Blended-Wing UAV
Hyo-Sang Shin, Antonis F. Antoniadis, Antonios Tsourdos
Bi-level Flight Path Planning of UAV Formations with Collision Avoidance
Egidio D’Amato, Massimiliano Mattei, Immacolata Notaro
Robust Consensus-Based Formation Flight for Multiple Quadrotors
E. G. Rojo-Rodriguez, O. Garcia, E. J. Ollervides, P. Zambrano-Robledo, E. S. Espinoza-Quesada
Collision Avoidance Effects on the Mobility of a UAV Swarm Using Chaotic Ant Colony with Model Predictive Control
Jan Dentler, Martin Rosalie, Grégoire Danoy, Pascal Bouvry, Somasundar Kannan, Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez, Holger Voos
Multi-UAV Carrier Phase Differential GPS and Vision-based Sensing for High Accuracy Attitude Estimation
Amedeo Rodi Vetrella, Flavia Causa, Alfredo Renga, Giancarmine Fasano, Domenico Accardo, Michele Grassi
Three Dimensional Intruder Closest Point of Approach Estimation Based-on Monocular Image Parameters in Aircraft Sense and Avoid
Peter Bauer, Antal Hiba, Jozsef Bokor, Akos Zarandy
Control-enabled Observability and Sensitivity Functions in Visual-Inertial Odometry
He Bai, Clark N. Taylor
Distributed UAV Loss Detection and Auto-replacement Protocol with Guaranteed Properties
Sunan Huang, Rodney Swee Huat Teo, Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan, Wenqi Liu, Siarhei Michailovich Dymkou
Autonomous MAV-based Indoor Chimney Inspection with 3D Laser Localization and Textured Surface Reconstruction
Jan Quenzel, Matthias Nieuwenhuisen, David Droeschel, Marius Beul, Sebastian Houben, Sven Behnke
Learning-Based Smoke Detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Applied to Forest Fire Surveillance
Chi Yuan, Zhixiang Liu, Youmin Zhang
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Strategy for UAV Autonomous Landing on a Moving Platform
Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, Carlos Sampedro, Hriday Bavle, Paloma de la Puente, Pascual Campoy
Quantifying Risk of Ground Impact Fatalities for Small Unmanned Aircraft
Anders la Cour-Harbo
Leveraging sUAS for Infrastructure Network Exploration and Failure Isolation
Andrew C. Lee, Mathieu Dahan, Andrew J. Weinert, Saurabh Amin