Modelling and control of mini -- flying machines
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Modelling and control of mini -- flying machines
（Advances in industrial control）
Springer, 2005
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed to assist in the motion control of various types of mini-aircraft:
* Planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft;
* helicopters;
* quadrotor mini-rotorcraft;
* other fixed-wing aircraft;
* blimps.
For each of these it propounds:
* detailed models derived from Euler-Lagrange methods;
* appropriate nonlinear control strategies and convergence properties;
* real-time experimental comparisons of the performance of control algorithms;
* review of the principal sensors, on-board electronics, real-time architecture and communications systems for mini-flying machine control, including discussion of their performance;
* detailed explanation of the use of the Kalman filter to flying machine localization.
To researchers and students in nonlinear control and its applications Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines provides valuable insights to the application of real-time nonlinear techniques in an always challenging area.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Historical Background The PVTOL Aircraft The Quad-rotor Rotorcraft Robust Prediction-based Control for Unstable Delay Systems Modelling and Control of mini-Helicopters Helicopter in a Vertical Flying Stand Modelling and Control of a Tandem-Wing Tail-Sitter UAV Modelling and Control of Small Autonomous Airships Sensors, Modems and Microcontrollers for UAVs Appendix A: Model Coefficients
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