Estimation, Navigation and Control of Multi-Rotor Drones in an Urban Wind Field

Abstract: The paper presents an on-board estimation, navigation and control architecture for multi-rotor drones flying in urban environment. It consists of adaptive algorithms to estimate vehicle’s aerodynamic drag coefficients with respect to still air and the urban wind components along the flight trajectory, with guaranteed fast and reliable convergence to the true values; navigation algorithms to generate feasible trajectories between given way-points that take into account the estimated wind; and …