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Fault-Tolerant Control of Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Fault Diagnosis & Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 244

Special Issue Editors

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea
Interests: mechatronics; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); sensors and actuators; multibody dynamic system modeling; design optimization; automation and control
Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Rd, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: systems dynamics and control; applied magnetic and field-based sensing; intelligent mechatronics and automation; nature-inspired robotics; unmanned ground/aerial systems; medical devices; design education and pedagogy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs) have become popular for both civil and military applications. MUAVs have been utilized in a number of research areas owing to their diverse capabilities and maneuverability, such as tracking control, collision avoidance, aerial manipulator, swarm systems, image processing, and deep learning. The performance of MUAVs has been studied and improved across wide research fields. However, numerous MUAV accidents have been caused by mistakes due to inexperienced operators, environmental disturbances, and failures of MUAV components. A fault-tolerant control (FTC) for robust flight of MUAVs has become more important to increase safety, prevent secondary accidents, and protect high-cost research equipment. An increasing number of MUAVs are designed to offer a redundant number of actuators to cope with faults. However, if any actuators fail in flight, MUAVs may have difficulties to compensate for the failure, which will result in an accident.

This Special Issue is dedicated to presenting new methods to diagnose faults in components of MUAVs, sensing and sensor fusion to identify faults, as well as fault-tolerant control of cyberphysical systems and robust control to maintain control and stability of the UAV when any failure occurs. In addition, contributions possibly designing hardware and software and algorithms with experimental validation are especially welcome.

Prof. Dr. Hungsun Son
Prof. Dr. Shaohui Foong
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • fault-tolerant control (FTC)
  • motor constraints
  • reliability
  • fault diagnosis
  • cyberphysical systems
  • sensor fusion
  • unmanned aerial vehicles

Published Papers

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