Fault-tolerant flight control and guidance systems practical methods for small unmanned aerial vehicles

This book offers a complete overview of fault-tolerant flight control techniques. Discussion covers the necessary equations for the modeling of small UAVs, a complete system based on extended Kalman filters, and a nonlinear flight control and guidance system.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ducard, Guillaume J.J
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht, Netherlands London, UK Springer 2009
Series:Advances in industrial control
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Review
  • Nonlinear Aircraft Model
  • Nonlinear Fault Detection and Isolation System
  • Control Allocation
  • Nonlinear Control Design
  • Autopilot for the Longitudinal Motion
  • Autopilot for the Lateral Motion
  • Reconfigurable Guidance System
  • Evaluation of the Reduction in Performance of a UAV
  • Conclusions and Outlook
  • Appendices.