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A. Mancinelli

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Quad-planes combine hovering and Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) capabilities with efficient forward flight. However, they are often vulnerable to gust disturbances and are not well-equipped to handle actuator faults. Dual-axis Tilt-Rotor quad-planes offer enhanced maneuverab ...
Quad-planes are a type of vehicle which combine the hovering capability of quadcopters and the forward flight efficiency of winged aircraft. Flight tests conducted on a dual-axis tilting-rotor quad-plane, designed to fly without aerodynamic surfaces, observed that the quad-plane ...
Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV are vehicles capable of take-off and landing vertically like helicopters while maintaining the long-range efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft. Unfortunately, due to their wing area, these vehicles are sensitive to wind gusts when hovering. One wa ...
This paper presents a modular autopilot framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that addresses the limitations of modern flight controllers. The framework utilizes separate and external subsystems for actuator control and the resolution of the Control Allocation problem. Th ...
In the last few decades, the UAV research has been focusing on hybrid vehicles with Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) capabilities. Opposed to copters, hybrid vehicles are highly influenced by wind disturbances. This paper presents a novel quad-plane design that uses four dual- ...