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.
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Professional and scholarly
Academic control engineers working with models of control in aircraft; libraries; electronic engineers working in the aerospace industry
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
126 s/w Abbildungen
XVI, 252 p. 126 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
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978-1-85233-957-9 (9781852339579)
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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.
