TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems
T2  - Advances in Industrial Control,
A1  - Cai, Guowei.
A2  - Chen, Ben M.
A2  - Lee, Tong Heng.
LA  - English
PP  - London
PB  - Springer London : Imprint: Springer
YR  - 2011
ED  - 1st ed. 2011.
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-0-85729-635-1
AB  - 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.
OP  - 270
CN  - TJ212-225
SN  - 9780857296351
KW  - Control engineering.
KW  - Artificial intelligence.
KW  - Aerospace engineering.
KW  - Astronautics.
KW  - Robotics.
KW  - Automation.
KW  - Microprogramming .
KW  - Control and Systems Theory.
KW  - Artificial Intelligence.
KW  - Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
KW  - Robotics and Automation.
KW  - Control Structures and Microprogramming.
ER  -