Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computability
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computability
Generic slung load transportation system using small size helicopters
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems
Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems
Trajectory tracking of leader-follower formations characterized by constant line-of-sight angles
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
IEEE Spectrum
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The article presents a finite-state machine, or FSM, for multi-vehicle airlift and experimental results of untethered multi-quadrotor flight. The rationale is as follows: before attaching a payload to a group of drones and deploying these vehicles in difficult conditions and environments, one must ensure that the FSM coordinates, for all the vehicles, the phases of airlift and assigns waypoints in a coherent manner and in real-time. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed FSM from a high-level control point of view, under nominal and degraded conditions of flight, albeit without an actual payload. The experiments therefore provide a needed preliminary study on the validity of the FSM concept prior to further refinements and tests.