A survey on fractional order control techniques for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

In recent years, numerous applications of science and engineering for modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) systems based on fractional calculus have been realized. The extra fractional order derivative terms allow to optimizing the performance of the systems. The review presented in this paper focuses on the control problems of the UAVs and UGVs that have been addressed by the fractional order techniques over the last decade

Proceedings of the International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Flight Competition 2017 (IMAV 2017)

The IMAV 2017 conference has been held at ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France from Sept. 18 to Sept. 21, 2017. More than 250 participants coming from 30 different countries worldwide have presented their latest research activities in the field of drones. 38 papers have been presented during the conference including various topics such as Aerodynamics, Aeroacoustics, Propulsion, Autopilots, Sensors, Communication systems, Mission planning techniques, Artificial Intelligence, Human-machine cooperation as applied to drones

Development of a flight control architecture for rotary wing UAVs with model based design approach

This thesis describes the design and implementation of various autopilot software architectures for mini/micro rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles by exploiting the modelbased design approach. Nowadays in fact, the tendency for software development is changing from manual coding to automatic code generation, in other words, it is becoming model-based. In general, models can be described as abstractions of systems, they are created to serve particular purposes, for example, to present a user-understandable description of the system or to present information in a more intuitive form. Model-based techniques for software design enables the engineer to reduce drastically development time required for software corrections or modi�cations. Under the various chapters, di�erent flight control techniques are presented with theoretical background and tested via simulations and experimental campaigns. All the navigation and control problems presented below arise in development of embedded software that exploits the innovative model-based design technology. In order to provide validations of the proposed solutions, software for simulation and implementation is specialized for the case of multirotor vehicles, which are becoming very helpful systems for many and varied civil operations. This is the reason why part of the text is devoted to multirotor vehicle dynamics