Multi-Quadrotor Distributed Load Transportation for Autonomous Agriculture Spraying Operations

No AccessEngineering NotesMulti-Quadrotor Distributed Load Transportation for Autonomous Agriculture Spraying OperationsAditya Hegde and Debasish GhoseAditya Hegde https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7572-5298Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India*Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Aerospace Engineering. Student Member AIAA.Search for more papers by this author and Debasish Ghose https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5022-4123Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India†Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:31 Mar 2022https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G006608SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About References [1] Sylvester G., E-Agriculture in Action: Drones for Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, 2018. 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All requests for copying and permission to reprint should be submitted to CCC at www.copyright.com; employ the eISSN 1533-3884 to initiate your request. See also AIAA Rights and Permissions www.aiaa.org/randp. TopicsAerodynamicsAerospace SciencesAircraft Operations and TechnologyAircraft Stability and ControlAircraftsAstrodynamicsAstronauticsAtmospheric ScienceAttitude ControlCoriolis EffectFlight Control SurfacesFluid DynamicsQuadcopterRemote Sensing and ApplicationsRotorcraftsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle KeywordsQuadrotorEuler AnglesYawUAVBody Reference FrameMulti Agent SystemProportional ControlAttitude DynamicsCoriolis ForcePayload SystemAcknowledgmentsAditya Hegde thanks the Tata Trusts for the travel grant supporting his attendance at the AIAA SciTech 2020 conference. Authors also acknowledge the EPSRC-GCRF for partial funding (EP/P02839X/1).PDF Received21 April 2021Accepted16 February 2022Published online31 March 2022