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Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines
Contributor(s): Castillo Garcia, Pedro (Author), Lozano, Rogelio (Author), Dzul, Alejandro Enrique (Author)
ISBN: 1849969779     ISBN-13: 9781849969772
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $161.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Automation
- Computers | Computer Simulation
- Mathematics | Applied
Dewey: 003.3
Series: Advances in Industrial Control
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.84 lbs) 252 pages
 
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Problems in the motion control of aircraft are of perennial interest to the control engineer as they tend to be of complex and nonlinear nature.

Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed for various types of mini-aircraft:

  • planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft;
  • helicopters;
  • quadrotor mini-rotorcraft;
  • other fixed-wing aircraft;
  • blimps;

for each of which 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.