Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control /

• Main Authors: Abdessameud, Abdelkader (Author), Tayebi, Abdelhamid (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Industrial Control,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Control engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Control.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Computer Communication Networks.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles develops new control design techniques for the distributed coordination of a team of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. In particular, it provides new control design approaches for the attitude synchronization of a formation of rigid body syste...

Table of Contents:

• Background and Preliminaries
• Mathematical Models of Flying Vehicles
• Attitude Synchronization
• Attitude Synchronization with Communication Delays
• Global Trajectory Tracking of VTOL UAVs
• Formation Control of VTOL UAVs
• Formation Control with Communication Delays.