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This paper presents a model based robust control scheme for tail-sitter hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in forward transition phase. To tackle the problem from high nonlinearity and uncertainties in transition dynamics, a comprehensive model form is constructed, and a so-called Robust Perfect Tracking (RPT) control method is utilized in attitude tracking. Experiment results are given to demonstrate...
A nonlinear model of a flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle (MAV) is built in which the load acceleration and equivalent moment are formulated linearly in the body frame. The aerodynamic force and moment are not considered directly because the mass and moment of inertia of the flapping-wing MAV are too tiny. The visual measurement system (VMS) is taken to measure the flight data such as the position...
In this paper, we present a vision-based relative sensing system for UAVs to realize leader-follower formation flight without inter-vehicle communication. A monocular camera is mounted on the follower to detected the leader and measure the relative distance by using the geometry information of the leader without artificial markers. The measured relative distance is utilized to estimate the velocity...
A complete flight control scheme with detailed design methodology is proposed for an indoor miniature coaxial helicopter with fixed collective pitch. To avoid system complexity and the problem of minimum phase control, the helicopter dynamic model is decomposed into two cascaded subsystems: an inner one for attitude and heading control and the outer one for trajectory control. H-infinity control technique...
The paper presents a control scheme to the formation flight of a pair of unmanned rotorcraft. A leader-follower formation strategy is adopted and it is realized by utilizing the robust and perfect tracking (RPT) control approach. More specifically, individual RPT flight control laws are implemented in each aircraft, while the measurements from its neighbor and its own sensors are both taken into account...
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