Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the ability to hover have significant potential for applications in urban or other constrained environments where the combination of fast speed, endurance, and stable ...

The Flight Control System 20 (FCS20) is a compact, self-contained Guidance, Navigation, and Control system that has recently been developed to enable advanced autonomous behavior in a wide range of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ...

Linear systems can be used to adequately model and control an aircraft in either ideal steady-level flight or in ideal hovering flight. However, constructing a single unified system capable of adequately modeling or ...

For autonomous helicopter flight, it is common to separate the flight control problem into an inner loop that controls attitude and an outer loop that controls the translational trajectory of the helicopter. In previous ...

The Georgia Tech aerial robotics team has developed a system to compete in the International Aerial Robotics Competition, organized by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, International. The team is a multi-disciplinary ...

The global stabilization of asymptotically null-controllable linear systems with bounded controls has been studied extensively. An early contribution was by Teel [6] who proposed a set of nested saturators to globally ...

Future small UAVs will require enhanced capabilities like seeing and avoiding obstacles, tolerating unpredicted flight conditions, interfacing with payload sensors, tracking moving targets, and cooperating with other ...