Flight Dynamics and System Identification for Modern Feedback Control

J E Hubbard Jr. J A Grauer J. E. Hubbard J. A. Grauer

ISBN 10: 0857094661 / ISBN 13: 9780857094667

Editore: Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2013

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• Titolo: Flight Dynamics and System Identification for Modern Feedback Control
• Editore: Woodhead Publishing Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0857094661
• ISBN 13: 9780857094667
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Unmanned air vehicles are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for private applications, such as fire fighting, search and rescue, atmospheric data collection and crop surveys. Among these vehicles are avian inspired, flapping wing designs that are both safe to operate near humans and can carry payloads while achieving maneuverability and agility in low speed flight. Conventional methods and tools fall do not offer the desired performance metrics and requirements of such craft. These distinguished authors provide an in depth study of the difficulties associated with achieving controlled performance in flapping wing, avian inspired flight, and offer a new model paradigm 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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jared A. Grauer is a research aerospace engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Langley Research Center, Virginia. His research is in system identification, feedback control, and unmanned air vehicle systems.

James E. Hubbard Jr., is currently Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland and Langley Distinguished Professor at the National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia. He has researched, developed, and manufactured morphing aircraft, smart materials, and unmanned air vehicle technologies. He is a Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).