Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machinesnbsp;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.nbsp; 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.
