Flight Control of Unmanned Rotorcrafts for Enhanced Situational Awaren

Astrov, Igor, Ph.d.

ISBN 10: 1619423111 / ISBN 13: 9781619423114

Published by NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (9/2014), 2014

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LIVRE A L?ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9781619423114.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flight Control of Unmanned Rotorcrafts for Enhanced Situational Awaren
• Publisher: NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (9/2014)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619423111
• ISBN 13: 9781619423114
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Used: Like New

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Synopsis

The need for highly reliable and stable maneuvers for unmanned rotorcrafts (URs) class of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) has increased morbidly for critical situations in real-time search-and-rescue operations for fast situational awareness (SA). A rotorcraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine that obtains its lift from rotors. SA is simply being aware of what is going on around you. This book provides basic approaches for the modeling and simulation of control systems on the basis of equations of motion for various types of models of rotorcrafts (miniature helicopter, intermediate helicopter, coaxial rotor/ducted fan mini-UAV, trirotor mini-UAV, vectored thrust mini-UAV, quadrotor mini-UAV, X4-flyer mini-UAV, eight-rotor mini-UAV) with emphasis on the modeling and simulation of realistic dynamics for fast SA. The effectiveness of the proposed research technique has been verified in field of flight simulation tests for chosen control models of the URs using software package Simulink. From the simulation results it can be seen that the UR models demonstrated an advantage in achieving good maneuverability in controlled flight during missions and good performance for fast stabilization of engines during maneuvers, consequently, fast SA with economy in energy of batteries can be asserted during missions, and the duration of missions can be longer.

About the Author

Igor Astrov was qualified as Engineer-Physicist in Radio Electronics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Soviet Union, and received the M.Eng. degree in Control of Technical Systems and Ph.D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Currently, he is a senior research scientist at the Department of Computer Control, Tallinn University of Technology, European Union. He has over 120 scientific publications.