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- Shows the reader how to adapt ideas of academic control theory to the difficulties imposed by the real world in which system knowledge is sometimes lacking
- Provides researchers with up-to-date and advanced tools of nonlinear control theory
- Presents several new approaches to control design for motion coordination of groups of UAVs
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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. In addition, by integrating new control design techniques with some concepts from nonlinear control theory and multi-agent systems, it presents a new theoretical framework for the formation control of a class of under-actuated aerial vehicles capable of vertical take-off and landing. Several practical problems related to the systems’ inputs, states measurements, and restrictions on the interconnection topology between the aerial vehicles in the team are addressed. Worked examples with sufficient details and simulation results are provided to illustrate the applicability and effectiveness of the theoretical results discussed in the book.
The material presented is primarily intended for researchers and industrial engineers from robotics, control engineering and aerospace communities. It also serves as a complementary reading for graduate students involved in research related to flying robotics, aerospace, control of under-actuated systems, and nonlinear control theory
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept of Electr. & Computer Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Abdelkader Abdessameud
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada
Abdelhamid Tayebi
About the authors
Abdelhamid Tayebi received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique d'Alger, Algeria in 1992, his M.Sc. in robotics from Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Robotics and Automatic Control from Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France in December 1997. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lakehead University in December 1999 where he is presently a Professor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B; Control Engineering Practice and IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board. He is the founder and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory at Lakehead University. His research interests are mainly related to linear and nonlinear control theory including adaptive control, robust control and iterative learning control, with applications to robot manipulators and aerial vehicles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Book Subtitle: Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control
Authors: Abdelkader Abdessameud, Abdelhamid Tayebi
Series Title: Advances in Industrial Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5094-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5093-0Published: 06 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6059-5Published: 13 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5094-7Published: 26 May 2013
Series ISSN: 1430-9491
Series E-ISSN: 2193-1577
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 182
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Computer Communication Networks, Communications Engineering, Networks