Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines

• Main Authors: Castillo, Pedro (Author), Lozano, Rogelio (Author), Dzul, Alejandro E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2005.
• Series: Advances in Industrial Control,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer simulation.; System theory.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Control engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electrical Engineering.; Control.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Systems Theory, Control.; Simulation and Modeling.

Problems in the motion control of aircraft are of perennial interest to the control engineer as they tend to be of complex and nonlinear nature. Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed for various types of mini-aircraft: • planar Vertical Take-off and Landi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.