Automation category: 777 books
by John E. Prussing, James M Longuski, José J. Guzmán
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Want to know not just what makes rockets go up but how to do it optimally? Optimal control theory has become such an important field in aerospace engineering that no graduate student or practicing engineer can afford to be without a working knowledge of it. This is the first book that begins...
by Chenxiao Cai, Zidong Wang, Jing Xu
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems. It paves the way for the gap between frequency-domain-transfer-function-based results and time-domain-state-space-based...
Robust and Adaptive Control
With Aerospace Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Robust and Adaptive Control shows the reader how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events. Driven by aerospace applications the focus of the book is primarily on continuous-dynamical systems.
The text is a three-part...
Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control
Selected Papers of the Fourth CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Held in Warsaw, Poland, April 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The first three CEAS (Counsil of European Aerospace Societies) Specialist Conferences on Guidance, Navigation and Control (CEAS EuroGNC) were held in Munich, Germany in 2011, in Delft, Netherlands in 2013 and in Toulouse, France in 2017. The Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and the Rzeszow University...
Foundations of Circulation Control Based Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft
A Comprehensive Methodology from Concept to Design and Experimental Testing
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book focuses on using and implementing Circulation Control (CC) - an active flow control method used to produce increased lift over the traditionally used systems, like flaps, slats, etc. - to design a new type of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft that are endowed with improved aerodynamic efficiency,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots...
Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design
Using Describing Function Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals...
Extremum-Seeking Control and Applications
A Numerical Optimization-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Extremum-seeking control tracks a varying maximum or minimum in a performance function such as output or cost. It attempts to determine the optimal performance of a control system as it operates, thereby reducing downtime and the need for system analysis. Extremum-seeking Control and Applications...
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles
From Theory to Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace demonstrates the attractive potential of recent developments in control for resolving such issues as flight performance, self protection and extended-life structures. Importantly, the text deals with a number of practically significant...
Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles
Applications to Land, Water and Air Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This edited volume includes thoroughly collected on sensing and control for autonomous vehicles.
Guidance, navigation and motion control systems for autonomous vehicles are increasingly important in land-based, marine and aerial operations. Autonomous underwater vehicles may be used for pipeline...
by Peter Dancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick,...
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles develops new control design techniques for the distributed coordination of a team of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. In particular, it provides new control design approaches for the attitude synchronization of a formation of rigid body systems....
by Hao Yang, Vincent Cocquempot, Bin Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book provides its reader with a good understanding of the stabilization of switched nonlinear systems (SNS), systems that are of practical use in diverse situations: design of fault-tolerant systems in space- and aircraft; traffic control; and heat propagation control of semiconductor power chips....
by Guowei Cai, Ben M. Chen, Tong Heng Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
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...