Fault-tolerant Flight Control and Guidance Systems: Practical Methods for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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Springer Science & Business Media, May 14, 2009 - Technology & Engineering - 268 pages

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.

 

Contents

Nonlinear Aircraft Model
27
Nonlinear Fault Detection and Isolation System
43
SupervisionModule
77
Control Allocation
89
Nonlinear Control Design
107
Autopilot for the Longitudinal Motion
121
Autopilot for the Lateral Motion
175
LateralMode
185
Reconfigurable Guidance System
201
Evaluation of the Reduction in the Performance of a UAV
229
Conclusions and Outlook
241
B Discretization of Linear State Space Models
247
Nonlinear Transformations Used in the Longitudinal
251
E Linearization of the Aircraft Model at 30ms
259
Index
265
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Between 2002 and 2004, Guillaum Ducard worked with the team designing the Pac-Car 2, designing hardware and control software for embedded fuel cell systems. The vehicle holds the world record for fuel economy. Since 2004, Doctor Ducard has been interested in hardware and software for unmanned aerial vehicles including fixed-wing aeroplanes, high-altitude atmospheric air ships and quadricopters. He received his Dr.Sc. degree from ETH in 2007. His current research involves the design of navigation algorithms, flight control and guidance systems for quadricopters. Guillaume Ducard is a member of the IEEE and of the AIAA.

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