Traditional control systems like Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (NDI) rely heavily on precise mathematical models. While this worked well for ...

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Tailsitter aircraft attract considerable interest due to their capabilities of both agile hover and high speed forward flight. However, traditional tailsitters that use aerodynamic control surfaces ...

United Aircraft showcased a concept design of a tilt-rotor UAV that is in trial production at the Singapore Airshow this week. Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle developer, United Aircraft, has unveiled ...

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Drone startup Flirtey announced that it has successfully conducted the first autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S. Done in Hawthorne, Nevada, Flirtey's six-rotor drone flew about a half-mile ...

This paper investigates the problem of the modeling and robust control for a new coaxial tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (CTRUAV). The CTRUAV is composed of two pairs of coaxial tilted rotors at ...