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.
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Language
Place of publication
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
126 s/w Abbildungen
XVI, 252 p. 126 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-1-84996-977-2 (9781849969772)
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Rogelio Lozano has worked in worked at a number of institutions with a high reputation for control engineering - the University of Newcastle in Australia, Nasa's Langley Research Center and now as CNRS Research Director at the University of Compiègne. He is a very experienced author in the control field being an associate editor of both
Automatica
and
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
. He is the co-author of 3 previous titles for Springer all of them in the
Communications and Control Engineering
series:
Landau, I.D., Lozano, R. and M'Saad, M.
Adaptive Control
(1997) 3-540-76187-X
Lozano, R., Brogliato, B., Egeland, O. and Maschke, B.
Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control
(1999) 1-85233-285-9
Fantoni, I. and Lozano, R.
Non-linear Control for Underactuated Mechanical Systems
(2001) 1-85233-423-1
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.
