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Article
Cooperative Control Strategy for an Airplane Landing on a Mobile Target
This paper presents a cooperative control strategy for landing a fixed-wing drone on a mobile target vehicle. The control strategy focuses on guiding the drone along a desired trajectory while the target vehic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Terahertz Imaging and Machine Learning in the Classification of Coffee Beans
The geographical origin of coffee beans represents an effect on the attributes and quality of the product due to the different soil and weather conditions for a specific location. Therefore, the development of...
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Article
A Vision and GPS-Based Real-Time Trajectory Planning for a MAV in Unknown and Low-Sunlight Environments
In this paper we address the problem of real-time optimal trajectory generation of a micro Air Vehicle (MAV) in unknown and low-sunlight environments. The MAV is required to navigate from an initial and outdoo...
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Article
Embedded Laser Vision System for Indoor Aerial Autonomous Navigation
An embedded laser vision system for indoor autonomous navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is presented. The vision system is composed of a camera, a classical laser line and vision algorithms and it...
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Article
Erratum to: Vision Based Tracking for a Quadrotor Using Vanishing Points
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Article
Mini Rotorcraft Flight Formation Control Using Bounded Inputs
In this paper, the flight formation control and trajectory tracking control design of multiple mini rotorcraft systems are discussed. The dynamic model of a mini rotorcraft is presented using the Newton-Euler ...
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Article
Vision Based Tracking for a Quadrotor Using Vanishing Points
In this paper, a vision based line tracking control strategy for mini-rotorcraft is presented. In order to estimate the 3-D position of the mini-rotorcraft over the trajectory a vanishing points technique is u...
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Article
Attitude Stabilization with Real-time Experiments of a Tail-sitter Aircraft in Horizontal Flight
This paper focusses on the attitude stabilization of a mini tail-sitter aircraft, considering aerodynamic effects. The main characteristic of this vehicle is that it operates in either the hover mode for launc...
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Chapter
Control Strategy Using Vision for the Stabilization of an Experimental PVTOL Aircraft Setup
In this chapter, we stabilize the planar vertical takeoff and landing (PVTOL) aircraft using a camera. The camera is used to measure the position and orientation of the PVTOL moving on an inclined plane. We ha...