Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines [Hardcover]

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.

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.

Rogelio Lozano has worked in worked at a number of institutions with a high reputation for control engineering  the University of Newcastle in Australia, Nasas Langley Research Center and now as CNRS Research Director at the University of Compi?gne. He is a very experienced author in the control field being an associate editor of blSC