Overview
- Provides the reader with a good complete reference for creating fully autonomous rotorcraft systems
- Can be easily adapted to the development of fixed- and flappy-winged unmanned aerial vehicles
- Gives the reader a good source of ideas and open problems for future research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) rotorcraft, and provides a complete treatment of the design of autonomous miniature rotorcraft UAVs. The unmanned system is an integration of advanced technologies developed in communications, computing, and control areas, and is an excellent testing ground for trialing and implementing modern control techniques. Included are detailed expositions of systematic hardware construction, software systems integration, aerodynamic modeling; and automatic flight control system design.
Emphasis is placed on the cooperative control and flight formation of multiple UAVs, vision-based ground target tracking, and landing on moving platforms. Other issues such as the development of GPS-less indoor micro aerial vehicles and vision-based navigation are also discussed in depth: utilizing the vision-based system for accomplishing ground target tracking, attacking and landing, cooperative control and flight formation of multiple unmanned rotorcraft; and future research directions on the related areas.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Guowei Cai's research area is the development of unmanned aerial systems, aerodynamic modeling and flight control systems.
Ben M. Chen's research areas include the development of unmanned systems, robust and non-linear control, and systems theory and control applications.
Tong H. Lee's main research foci are in unmanned aerial systems, adaptive control systems, knowledge-based control and intelligent motion control.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems
Authors: Guowei Cai, Ben M. Chen, Tong Heng Lee
Series Title: Advances in Industrial Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-635-1
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-634-4Published: 02 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7154-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-635-1Published: 01 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1430-9491
Series E-ISSN: 2193-1577
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 270
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Robotics and Automation, Control Structures and Microprogramming