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Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV : experimental results
(2015)The quadrotor is a type of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which is gaining popularity over the past few years for its potential applications. Quadrotor UAVs are used, for instance, for surveillance, search and rescue ... -
Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV: experimental implementation
(2022)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming ubiquitous due to their potential benefits in many civilian and military applications. UAVs are designed to accomplish complex tasks safely and effectively, such as search and ... -
Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV: Experimental results
(2017)The quadrotor is a type of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which is gaining popularity over the past few years for its potential applications. Quadrotor UAVs are used, for instance, for surveillance, search and rescue ... -
Attitude estimation and control of a ducted fan VTOL UAV
(2007)A significant area of current research is to develop aircraft which are unmanned. More specifically, some researchers are focusing on hovering type aircraft, or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Since these ... -
Attitude estimation and stabilization of a quadrotor aircraft
(2011)In the past few years, researchers have shown great interest in quadrotor aircraft as a platform for UAV research due to simplicity of construction as well as maintenance, ability to hover in small indoor locations or ... -
Attitude stabilization of a quadrotor aircraft
(2004)The quadrotor aircraft has seen a growing interest in the research community over the past few years, with a focus on modeling and control however. Early rotating wing aircraft pioneers designed similar four-rotor aircraft ... -
Autonomous navigation algorithms for indoor mobile robots
(2009)In many autonomous mobile robotic applications, the capability of finding a good path is of primary importance, especially for the places which are cluttered by random obstacles that may appear on the robot's path. -
Congestion and admission control in WDM optical networks
(2006)The demand for more communication bandwidth and network resources, has pushed researchers to find faster and more reliable data communication networks. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is a promising technology to ... -
Design of a 6-DOF haptic interface for robotic teleoperation
(2008)Teleoperation has become increasingly important in medical applications, handling hazardous materials, as well as in other robotics applications. Force feedback in such systems is essential; therefore a haptic device is ... -
Distributed cooperative state estimation and control for multi-agent autonomous systems
(2024)This dissertation addresses several problems related to distributed cooperative state estimation and control design for multi-agent rigid-body autonomous systems, namely bearing-based distributed pose estimation, distributed ... -
Experimental evaluation of some classical and adaptive iterative learning control schemes on a 5DOF robot manipulator
(2004)In many process industries (e.g., VLSI production lines, Automotive industries, IC welding process, inspections, manipulations), robot manipulators are used to perform the same tasks repeatedly over a finite time interval. ... -
Image-based visual servoing of a VTOL UAV
(2009)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an area of significant research activity these days because of their use in dull, dangerous, and dirty tasks. Lack of human pilot paves the way for advanced and more sophisticated control ... -
Integrated mechanisms for QoS and restoration in mesh transport networks
(2007)Survivable networks have the capability to survive from the events of network components failures. The resilience mechanisms in these networks protect and restore the impaired communication paths by using spare capacity. ... -
Intelligent systems for active vibration control in flexible engineering structures / by Ji Xiaoxu.
(2008)Vibration arises in almost all moving structures. Vibration control is important to many applications such as robotic arms, aircraft wings, buildings in wind, vehicle transmission systems,to name but a few. The objective ... -
Iterative learning control for robot manipulators
(2004)When a system is performing the same task repeatedly it is, from an engineering perspective, advantageous to use the knowledge from the previous iterations of the same task in order to reduce the error on successive ... -
Novel Hilbert Huang transform techniques for bearing fault detection
(2014-01-22)Bearings are commonly used in rotary machinery; while up to half of machinery malfunctions could be related to bearing defects. A reliable bearing fault detection technique becomes vital to a wide array of industries to ... -
Observer-based chaos synchronization for secure communications
(2006)Chaos, with reference to chaos theory, refers to an apparent lack of order in a system that, nevertheless, obeys particular laws or rules. The chaotic signals generated by chaotic systems have some properties such as ... -
Position control of a quadrotor UAV using stereo computer vision
(2019)Quadrotors are a recent popular consumer product, prompting further developments with regards to combining attitude and position control for such unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The quadrotor’s attitude (orientation) ... -
Pulsatile flow interaction with a stented artery : compliance mismatch effects
(2007)Atherosclerosis is a group of diseases characterized by thickening of the arterial wall resulting in a reduction in the cross-sectional area of the lumen. One of treatments for these artery diseases is stent angioplasty. ... -
Real-time implementation of some attitude estimation algorithms on a quadrotor UAV / by Siddhant Nayak.
(2013)The recent developments in research pertaining to the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is motivated by its technical challenges as well as its practical implications in areas where human presence is inefficient, ...