TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cai,Guowei
AU  - Chen,Ben M.
AU  - Lee,Tong Heng
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems
T2  - Advances in Industrial Control,
SN  - 9780857296351
U1  - 629.8 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Springer London, Imprint: Springer
KW  - ENGINEERING
KW  - MICROPROGRAMMING
KW  - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
KW  - ASTRONAUTICS
KW  - CONTROL
KW  - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (INCL. ROBOTICS)
KW  - AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AND ASTRONAUTICS
KW  - ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
KW  - CONTROL STRUCTURES AND MICROPROGRAMMING
N1  - Introduction -- Systematic Hardware construction -- Software System Integration -- Aerodynamic Modeling and System Identification -- Measurement Signal Enhancement -- Automatic Flight Control -- Flight Simulation and Experiment -- Cooperative Control of Multiple Rotorcraft -- Vision-based Tracking and Landing -- Micro Aerial Vehicles -- Future Research
N2  - Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and provides a complete treatment of their design. The unmanned system is an integration of advanced technologies developed in communications, computing, and control areas. It is a useful testing ground for trialing and implementing modern control techniques despite the challenges introduced by the limitations on direct scalability between the systems of a small-scale rotorcraft and those of its full-scale counterpart. 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 indoor micro aerial vehicles (that have to operate without access to a global positioning system) and vision-based navigation are also discussed in depth. The text is rounded out with a presentation of possible future research directions for relevant fields of study. Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems will be of great value to practicing engineers in aerospace-related industries and to academic researchers from aerospace, electrical or mechanical engineering backgrounds working on the development of unmanned systems
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-635-1
ER  -