Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines

Pedro Castillo Garcia

ISBN 10: 1852339578 / ISBN 13: 9781852339579

Published by Springer London Jun 2005, 2005

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Neuware - Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machinesis 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines
• Publisher: Springer London Jun 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852339578
• ISBN 13: 9781852339579
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 167H x 18D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 167 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 476 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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