Flight Dynamics and System Identification for Modern Feedback Control - Avian-Inspired Robots (Hardcover, New)

Unmanned air vehicles are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for private applications which include, but are not limited to, fire fighting, search and rescue, atmospheric data collection, and crop surveys, to name a few. Among these vehicles are avian-inspired, flapping-wing designs, which are safe to operate near humans and are required to carry payloads while achieving manoeuverability and agility in low speed flight. Conventional methods and tools fall short of achieving the desired performance metrics and requirements of such craft. Flight dynamics and system identification for modern feedback control provides an in-depth study of the difficulties associated with achieving controlled performance in flapping-wing, avian-inspired flight, and a new model paradigm is derived using analytical and experimental methods, with which a controls designer may then apply familiar tools. This title consists of eight chapters and covers flapping-wing aircraft and flight dynamics, before looking at nonlinear, multibody modelling as well as flight testing and instrumentation. Later chapters examine system identification from flight test data, feedback control and linearization.
Presents experimental flight data for validation and verification of modelled dynamics, thus illustrating the deficiencies and difficulties associated with modelling flapping-wing flightDerives a new flight dynamics model needed to model avian-inspired vehicles, based on nonlinear multibody dynamicsExtracts aerodynamic models of flapping flight from experimental flight data and system identification techniques

General

Imprint:	Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Jared A. Grauer • James E. Hubbard Jr.
Dimensions:	240 x 157 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-85709-466-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Intelligent & automated transport system technology Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Aerospace & aviation technology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-85709-466-1
Barcode:	9780857094667

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