A review on control and maneuvering of cooperative fixed-wing drones

Elijah, Thato; Jamisola, Rodrigo S.; Tjiparuro, Zeundjua; Namoshe, Molaletsa

doi:10.1007/s40435-020-00710-2

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“…A particle swarm optimisation (PSO)-tuned adaptive neurofuzzy inference system (ANFIS) controller is implemented by Selma et al [7] to achieve a robust trajectory tracking scheme for a three-degree freedom quadcopter in a disturbed environment condition. An extensive review article on motion planning of quadcopters or drones and their various control techniques was reported by Elijah et al [8] , and although these authors discussed the physical results associated with the experimental deployment of a quadcopter, they were not elaborately reported in that work. Moreover, Heidari and Saska [9] briefly discussed the different types of quadcopters such as fixed-wing and multi-rotor and their advantages and disadvantages in various applications with a comparative analysis.…”

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“…The rotation of rotors or blades (1) provides an upward lift to the UAV and facilitates a vehicle (UAV + UGV) to move in the air. In a vehicle (UAV + UGV), the ground traversing device or UGV includes the UGV's frame ( 6), caterpillar wheel-based right-wheel driving system (4), left-wheel driving system (5) and DC motors (8). The ground traversing device is attached to the lower portion of the UAV's frame (11).…”

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“…provides the ground traversing capability. In a vehicle (UAV + UGV), the ground traversing device includes a control unit to control the rotation of the DC motors (8). The control unit is implemented as a hardware component in an electronic system box (3).…”

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Design and Analysis of a Novel Concept-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Ground Traversing Capability

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Gour

Pandey

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Acta Mechanica Et Automatica

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a typical aircraft that is operated remotely by a human operator or autonomously by an on-board microcontroller. The UAV typically carries offensive ordnance, target designators, sensors or electronic transmitters designed for one or more applications. Such application can be in the field of defence surveillance, border patrol, search, bomb disposals, logistics and so forth. These UAVs are also being used in some other areas, such as medical purposes including for medicine delivery, rescue operations, agricultural applications and so on. However, these UAVs can only fly in the sky, and they cannot travel on the ground for other applications. Therefore, in this paper, we design and present the novel concept-based UAV, which can also travel on the ground and rough terrain as an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). This means that according to our requirement, we can use this as a quadcopter and caterpillar wheel–based UGV using a single remote control unit. Further, the current study also briefly discusses the two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) SolidWorks models of the novel concept-based combined vehicle (UAV + UGV), together with a physical model of a combined vehicle (UAV + UGV) and its various components. Moreover, the kinematic analysis of a combined vehicle (UAV + UGV) has been studied, and the motion controlling kinematic equations have been derived. Then, the real-time aerial and ground motions and orientations and control-based experimental results of a combined vehicle (UAV + UGV) are presented to demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed vehicle.

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Design and Analysis of a Novel Concept-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Ground Traversing Capability

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“…Due to their ability to achieve level flight without any extra actuators, they turn out to be mechanically simple but pose a complex problem in control and structural design, as they need to withstand periodic impact loads on their rear tails, which is undesirable for a miniature UAV, as in our case [ 7 ]. Convertiplanes: Unlike the tail sitters, convertiplanes maintain their aircraft configuration integrity throughout the flight envelope (i.e., the fuselage is level in both flight modes) and employs the tilting of the subcomponents such as a morphable wing, motor orientation, etc., to achieve seamless transfer between independent flight modes [ 8 ]. Depending on the subcomponent responsible for the transition, convertiplanes are again subcategorized into: Dual System Tilt-Rotors: This configuration utilizes multiple actuators, which are directed upwards and downwards in a pusher tractor configuration [ 9 ].…”

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“…Convertiplanes: Unlike the tail sitters, convertiplanes maintain their aircraft configuration integrity throughout the flight envelope (i.e., the fuselage is level in both flight modes) and employs the tilting of the subcomponents such as a morphable wing, motor orientation, etc., to achieve seamless transfer between independent flight modes [ 8 ]. Depending on the subcomponent responsible for the transition, convertiplanes are again subcategorized into: Dual System Tilt-Rotors: This configuration utilizes multiple actuators, which are directed upwards and downwards in a pusher tractor configuration [ 9 ].…”

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Design, Analysis, and Testing of a Hybrid VTOL Tilt-Rotor UAV for Increased Endurance

Panigrahi

Krishna

Thondiyath

2021

Sensors

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have slowly but steadily emerged as a research and commercial hotspot because of their widespread applications. Due to their agility, compact size, and ability to integrate multiple sensors, they are mostly sought for applications that require supplementing human effort in risky and monotonous missions. Despite all of these advantages, rotorcrafts, in general, are limited by their endurance and power-intensive flight requirements, which consequently affect the time of flight and operational range. On the other hand, fixed-wing aircrafts have an extended range, as the entire thrust force is along the direction of motion and are inherently more stable but are limited by their takeoff and landing strip requirements. One of the potential solutions to increase the endurance of VTOL rotorcrafts (Vertical Take-Off and Landing Vehicles) was to exploit the thrust vectoring ability of the individual actuators in multi-rotors, which would enable take-off and hovering as a VTOL vehicle and flight as a fixed-wing aircraft. The primary aim of this paper is to lay out the overall design process of a Hybrid VTOL tilt-rotor UAV from the initial conceptual sketch to the final fabricated prototype. The novelty of the design lies in achieving thrust vectoring capabilities in a fixed-wing platform with minimum actuation and no additional control complexity. This paper presents novel bi-copter that has been designed to perform as a hybrid configuration in both VTOL and fixed wing conditions with minimum actuators in comparison to existing designs. The unified dynamic modelling along with the approximation of multiple aerodynamic coefficients by numerical simulations is also presented. The overall conceptual design, dynamic modeling, computational simulation, and experimental analysis of the novel hybrid fixed-wing bi-copter with thrust vectoring capabilities aiming to substantially increase the flight range and endurance compared to the conventional aircraft rotorcraft configurations are presented.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communications Security Challenges: A Survey

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Mihoub

2023

Synthesis Lectures on Intelligent Technologies

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A review on control and maneuvering of cooperative fixed-wing drones

Cited by 28 publications

References 120 publications

Design and Analysis of a Novel Concept-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Ground Traversing Capability

Design and Analysis of a Novel Concept-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Ground Traversing Capability

Design, Analysis, and Testing of a Hybrid VTOL Tilt-Rotor UAV for Increased Endurance

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communications Security Challenges: A Survey

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