Overview
- The reader is shown how to devise and compare non-linear control strategies for well-known and complicated aeronautical control problems
- Allows the reader to make informed judgements between various elements of available control systems after reading just one book
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines
Authors: Pedro Castillo, Rogelio Lozano, Alejandro E. Dzul
Series Title: Advances in Industrial Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-179-2
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-957-9Published: 30 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-977-2Published: 21 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-179-2Published: 08 December 2005
Series ISSN: 1430-9491
Series E-ISSN: 2193-1577
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 252
Number of Illustrations: 126 b/w illustrations
Topics: Electrical Engineering, Control and Systems Theory, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Systems Theory, Control, Simulation and Modeling