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Hao Qi, Shi-Jie Cao, Jia-Yue Wu, Yi-Ming Peng, Hong Nie and Xiao-Hui Wei
The tail-sitter VTOL UAV boasts not only high-speed cruising and air hovering capabilities, but also its unique tail-sitting vertical takeoff and landing and hovering attitude enable aerial operations with an exceptionally small cross-sectional area. Thi...
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Magdalena Peciak, Wojciech Skarka, Krzysztof Mateja and Maik Gude
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that allows for flight in harsh weather for surveillance and access to remote areas. VTOL can be performed without a runway. As such, VOTL UAVs are used in areas where ther...
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Vladimir Beliaev, Nadezhda Kunicina, Anastasija Ziravecka, Martins Bisenieks, Roberts Grants and Antons Patlins
This article represents and compares two control systems for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): a sliding proportional?integral?derivative (PID) controller and an adaptive L1 controller. The goal is to design a high-perf...
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Stavros Kapsalis, Chris Bliamis, Pavlos Kaparos, Pericles Panagiotou and Kyros Yakinthos
The current work investigates the effect of canard geometric characteristics on the performance of a lightweight flying wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of both conventional and Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) flight. The canards are size...
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Huiling Li and Kun Liu
In order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels, the concept of distributed electric propulsion (DEP) has been introduced. At present, there are a few studies on the small electric propulsion engines of DEP vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAVs. Ac...
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Muhammad Baber Sial, Yuwei Zhang, Shaoping Wang, Sara Ali, Xinjiang Wang, Xinyu Yang, Zirui Liao and Zunheng Yang
Most of the recent research on distributed formation control of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is founded on position, distance, and displacement-based approaches; however, a very promising approach, i.e., bearing-based formation control, is still ...
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Gesang Nugroho, Galih Zuliardiansyah and Azhar Aulia Rasyiddin
A Vertical Take-Off and Landing-Plane (VTOL-Plane) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that combines multirotor and fixed-wing configurations. It has a good cruise range compared to a VTOL vehicle. Furthermore, it can take-off and land vertically. This t...
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Daniel Aláez, Xabier Olaz, Manuel Prieto, Pablo Porcellinis and Jesús Villadangos
With the increasing popularity of vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (VTOL UAVs), a new problem arises: pilot training. Most conventional pilot training simulators are designed for full-scale aircrafts, while most UAV simulators are j...
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Yanpeng Hu, Jin Guo, Pei Ying, Guannan Zeng and Nanyu Chen
This paper explores a novel single tail tilt servomotor tri-rotor ducted vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicle system (VTOL-UAV), and proposes a compound control method combining disturbance observer, model predictive control (MPC) and sli...
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Jae-Hyun An, Do-Youn Kwon, Kwon-Su Jeon, Maxim Tyan and Jae-Woo Lee
A critical drawback of battery-powered eVTOL UAVs is their limited range and endurance, and this drawback could be solved by using a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and batteries. The objective of this paper is to develop a sizing methodology for the ...
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