Description
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. 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 Compigne. 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 Introduction 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 Appendix A: Model Coefficients
