Volume 73, Issue 1-4

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January 2014

Special Issue on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Part I

Issue Editor:

Kimon P. Valavanis

53 articles in this issue

UAS Special Volumes in Jint
K. P. Valavanis
Guest Editorial 07 December 2013 Pages: 1 - 2
Advances in Modeling and Control of Tethered Unmanned Helicopters to Enhance Hovering Performance
Luis A. Sandino
Manuel Bejar
Anibal Ollero
OriginalPaper 03 October 2013 Pages: 3 - 18
Model-Based Helicopter UAV Control: Experimental Results
Bryan Godbolt
Alan F. Lynch
OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 19 - 31
PID and LQ Regulation of a Multirotor Attitude: Mathematical Modelling, Simulations and Experimental Results
F. Rinaldi
A. Gargioli
F. Quagliotti
OriginalPaper 02 October 2013 Pages: 33 - 50
Robust Backstepping Control Based on Integral Sliding Modes for Tracking of Quadrotors
Heriberto Ramirez-Rodriguez
Vicente Parra-Vega
Octavio Garcia-Salazar
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 51 - 66
Backstepping - Sliding Mode Controllers Applied to a Fixed-Wing UAV
T. Espinoza
A. E. Dzul
P. Parada
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 67 - 79
Hard Real-Time Implementation of a Nonlinear Controller for the Quadrotor Helicopter
J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera
José J. Corona-Sánchez
H. Rodríguez-Cortés
OriginalPaper 12 October 2013 Pages: 81 - 97
A New Nonlinear Controller for Trajectory Tracking of the Longitudinal Dynamics of a Small Scale Helicopter
J. G. Benítez-Morales
H. Rodríguez-Cortés
R. Castro-Linares
OriginalPaper 24 October 2013 Pages: 99 - 121
Attitude Stabilization of a Quadrotor by Means of Event-Triggered Nonlinear Control
J. F. Guerrero-Castellanos
J. J. Téllez-Guzmán
V. R. González-Díaz
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 123 - 135
Chattering-Free Sliding Mode Altitude Control for a Quad-Rotor Aircraft: Real-Time Application
Iván González
Sergio Salazar
Rogelio Lozano
OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 137 - 155
Randomized Approaches for Control of QuadRotor UAVs
Elisa Capello
Fulvia Quagliotti
Roberto Tempo
OriginalPaper 12 October 2013 Pages: 157 - 173
An Impedance Force Control Approach to a Quad-Rotor System Based on an Acceleration-Based Disturbance Observer
Seul Jung
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 175 - 185
Pitch Loop Control of a VTOL UAV Using Fractional Order Controller
Jinlu Han
Long Di
YangQuan Chen
OriginalPaper 17 October 2013 Pages: 187 - 195
Real-Time Implementation of Decoupled Controllers for Multirotor Aircrafts
Hao Liu
Danjun Li
Yisheng Zhong
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 197 - 207
Control-Oriented Physical Input Modelling for a Helicopter UAV
Bryan Godbolt
Alan F. Lynch
OriginalPaper 06 October 2013 Pages: 209 - 217
Adaptive Neural Control of a Hypersonic Vehicle in Discrete Time
Bin Xu
Danwei Wang
Senqiang Zhu
OriginalPaper 01 October 2013 Pages: 219 - 231
Command Filter Based Robust Nonlinear Control of Hypersonic Aircraft with Magnitude Constraints on States and Actuators
Bin Xu
Shixing Wang
Zhongke Shi
OriginalPaper 27 October 2013 Pages: 233 - 247
A Singularly Perturbed System Approach to Adaptive Neural Back-stepping Control Design of Hypersonic Vehicles
Daoxiang Gao
Shixing Wang
Houjiang Zhang
OriginalPaper 31 October 2013 Pages: 249 - 259
PID Controller Applied to Hexacopter Flight
Andrea Alaimo
Valeria Artale
Angela Ricciardello
OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 261 - 270
Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation with X-Plane of Attitude Control of a SUAV Exploring Atmospheric Conditions
Adriano Bittar
Neusa Maria Franco de Oliveira
Helosman Valente de Figueiredo
OriginalPaper 12 October 2013 Pages: 271 - 287
A HIL Testbed for Initial Controller Gain Tuning of a Small Unmanned Helicopter
Sepehr P. Khaligh
Alejandro Martínez
Charles Robert Koch
OriginalPaper 18 October 2013 Pages: 289 - 308
A Terrain Referenced UAV Localization Algorithm Using Binary Search Method
Orhan Eroglu
Guray Yilmaz
OriginalPaper 02 October 2013 Pages: 309 - 323
Optimization of Intelligent Approach for Low-Cost INS/GPS Navigation System
Kamal Saadeddin
Mamoun F. Abdel-Hafez
Mohammad Amin Jarrah
OriginalPaper 23 October 2013 Pages: 325 - 348
A Cross-Platform Comparison of Visual Marker Based Approaches for Autonomous Flight of Quadrocopters
Andreas Masselli
Shaowu Yang
Andreas Zell
OriginalPaper 23 October 2013 Pages: 349 - 359
A Survey of Optical Flow Techniques for Robotics Navigation Applications
Haiyang Chao
Yu Gu
Marcello Napolitano
OriginalPaper 12 October 2013 Pages: 361 - 372
A Passive Velocity Field Control for Navigation of Quadrotors with Model-free Integral Sliding Modes
A. -J. Munoz-Vazquez
V. Parra-Vega
A. Sanchez
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 373 - 385
A General Purpose Configurable Controller for Indoors and Outdoors GPS-Denied Navigation for Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jesús Pestana
Ignacio Mellado-Bataller
Pascual Campoy
OriginalPaper 05 October 2013 Pages: 387 - 400
Framework for Autonomous On-board Navigation with the AR.Drone
Jacobo Jiménez Lugo
Andreas Zell
OriginalPaper 19 October 2013 Pages: 401 - 412
Automatic Tuning Architecture for the Navigation Control Loops of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Antonino Catena
Carmelo Donato Melita
Giovanni Muscato
OriginalPaper 11 October 2013 Pages: 413 - 427
Fractional-Order Complementary Filters for Small Unmanned Aerial System Navigation
Calvin Coopmans
Austin M. Jensen
YangQuan Chen
OriginalPaper 24 October 2013 Pages: 429 - 453
Fault Estimation for a Quad-Rotor MAV Using a Polynomial Observer
Hipolito Aguilar-Sierra
Gerardo Flores
Rogelio Lozano
OriginalPaper 02 October 2013 Pages: 455 - 468
Modeling and Sliding Mode Control of a Micro Helicopter-Airplane System
E. S. Espinoza
O. Garcia
R. Lozano
OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 469 - 486
Efficient Flight Control via Mechanical Impedance Manipulation: Energy Analyses for Hummingbird-Inspired MAVs
Hosein Mahjoubi
Katie Byl
OriginalPaper 05 October 2013 Pages: 487 - 512
Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM-Based Collision Avoidance Strategy for Fail-Safe UAV Using Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Changhong Fu
Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez
Pascual Campoy
OriginalPaper 11 October 2013 Pages: 513 - 533
A Review on Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control Methods for Single-rotor Aerial Vehicles
Xin Qi
Juntong Qi
ChunSheng Hua
OriginalPaper 05 October 2013 Pages: 535 - 555
Nonlinear Actuator Fault Detection for Small-Scale UASs
X. Yang
L. Mejias
B. Arain
OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 557 - 572
Robust Fault Diagnosis for Quadrotor UAVs Using Adaptive Thau Observer
Zhaohui Cen
Hassan Noura
Younes Al Younes
OriginalPaper 23 October 2013 Pages: 573 - 588
Fault Tolerant Formations Control of UAVs Subject to Permanent and Intermittent Faults
Qing Xu
Hao Yang
Youmin Zhang
OriginalPaper Open access 10 October 2013 Pages: 589 - 602
Fault-Tolerant Formation Driving Mechanism Designed for Heterogeneous MAVs-UGVs Groups
Martin Saska
Tomáš Krajník
Libor Přeučil
OriginalPaper 12 October 2013 Pages: 603 - 622
A Distributed Deployment Strategy for Multi-Agent Systems Subject to Health Degradation and Communication Delays
Farid Sharifi
Youmin Zhang
Amir G. Aghdam
OriginalPaper 18 October 2013 Pages: 623 - 633
Reachability Analysis of Landing Sites for Forced Landing of a UAS
Matthew Coombes
Wen-Hua Chen
Peter Render
OriginalPaper 13 October 2013 Pages: 635 - 653
Iterative Consensus for a Class of Second-order Multi-agent Systems
Jiantao Shi
Xiao He
Donghua Zhou
OriginalPaper 30 October 2013 Pages: 655 - 664
An Approach for Optimal Goal Position Assignment in Vehicle Formations
Luis García-Delgado
R. Gómez-Fuentes
A. G. Rojas-Hernández
OriginalPaper 18 October 2013 Pages: 665 - 677
Nonlinear Trajectory Control of Multi-body Aerial Manipulators
Marin Kobilarov
OriginalPaper 18 October 2013 Pages: 679 - 692
Hybrid Adaptive Control for Aerial Manipulation
Matko Orsag
Christopher Michael Korpela
Paul Yu Oh
OriginalPaper 30 October 2013 Pages: 693 - 707
Design and Control of a Hyper-Redundant Manipulator for Mobile Manipulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Todd W. Danko
Paul Y. Oh
OriginalPaper 10 October 2013 Pages: 709 - 723
Hardware-in-the-Loop Verification for Mobile Manipulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Christopher Korpela
Matko Orsag
Paul Oh
OriginalPaper 18 October 2013 Pages: 725 - 736
3D Path Planning for Multiple UAVs for Maximum Information Collection
Halit Ergezer
Kemal Leblebicioğlu
OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 737 - 762
Spline-Based RRT Path Planner for Non-Holonomic Robots
Kwangjin Yang
Sangwoo Moon
Sanghyun Joo
OriginalPaper 12 October 2013 Pages: 763 - 782
Collision-Free 4D Trajectory Planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Assembly and Structure Construction
D. Alejo
J. A. Cobano
A. Ollero
OriginalPaper 01 October 2013 Pages: 783 - 795

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