Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

1. Basics

Modeling and Control

  • Valavanis, Kimon P., and George J. Vachtsevanos. 2014. “Quadrotor Kinematics and Dynamics.” In Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 307–28. Springer Netherlands.
  • Mellinger, Daniel, Nathan Michael, and Vijay Kumar. 2012. “Trajectory Generation and Control for Precise Aggressive Maneuvers with Quadrotors.” The International Journal of Robotics Research 31 (5): 664–74. [pdf]
  • Fresk, E., and G. Nikolakopoulos. 2013. “Full Quaternion Based Attitude Control for a Quadrotor.” In Control Conference (ECC), 2013 European, 3864–69. [pdf]
  • Lee, Taeyoung, M. Leoky, and N. H. McClamroch. 2010. “Geometric Tracking Control of a Quadrotor UAV on SE(3).” In Decision and Control (CDC), 2010 49th IEEE Conference on, 5420–25. [pdf]