Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) rotorcraft, and provides a complete treatment of the design of autonomous miniature rotorcraft UAVs. The unmanned system is an integration of advanced technologies developed in communications, computing, and control areas, and is an excellent testing ground for trialing and implementing modern control techniques. Included are detailed expositions of systematic hardware construction, software systems integration, aerodynamic modeling; and automatic flight control system design.
Emphasis is placed on the cooperative control and flight formation of multiple UAVs, vision-based ground target tracking, and landing on moving platforms. Other issues such as the development of GPS-less indoor micro aerial vehicles and vision-based navigation are also discussed in depth: utilizing the vision-based system for accomplishing ground target tracking, attacking and landing, cooperative control and flight formation of multiple unmanned rotorcraft; and future research directions on the related areas.

Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems (Advances in Industrial Control)

Computers & Technology

Lee, Tong Heng

Chen, Ben M.

Cai, Guowei

Computer Science

Springer

Intelligent Diagnosis and Prognosis of Industrial Networked Systems: Automation and Control Engineering Series

In an era of intense competition where plant operating efficiencies must be maximized, downtime due to machinery failure has become more costly. To cut operating costs and increase revenues, industries have an urgent need to predict fault progression and remaining lifespan of industrial machines, processes, and systems. An engineer who mounts an acoustic sensor onto a spindle motor wants to know when the ball bearings will wear out without having to halt the ongoing milling processes. A scientist working on sensor networks wants to know which sensors are redundant and can be pruned off to save operational and computational overheads. These scenarios illustrate a need for new and unified perspectives in system analysis and design for engineering applications. Intelligent Diagnosis and Prognosis of Industrial Networked Systems proposes linear mathematical tool sets that can be applied to realistic engineering systems. The book offers an overview of the fundamentals of vectors, matrices, and linear systems theory required for intelligent diagnosis and prognosis of industrial networked systems. Building on this theory, it then develops automated mathematical machineries and formal decision software tools for real-world applications. The book includes portable tool sets for many industrial applications, including: <ul>
<li>Forecasting machine tool wear in industrial cutting machines</li> <li>Reduction of sensors and features for industrial fault detection and isolation (FDI)</li> <li>Identification of critical resonant modes in mechatronic systems for system design of R&amp;D</li> <li>Probabilistic small-signal stability in large-scale interconnected power systems</li> <li>Discrete event command and control for military applications</li>
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The book also proposes future directions for intelligent diagnosis and prognosis in energy-efficient manufacturing, life cycle assessment, and systems of systems architecture. Written in a concise and accessible style, it presents tools that are mathematically rigorous but not involved. Bridging academia, research, and industry, this reference supplies the know-how for engineers and managers making decisions about equipment maintenance, as well as researchers and students in the field.

Lewis, Frank L.

Pang, Chee Khiang

Dong, Zhao Yang

CRC-Press

This book explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). It also provides a complete treatment of their design and examines possible future research directions.

Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems

Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems provides a comprehensive treatment of helicopter systems, ranging from related nonlinear flight dynamic modeling and stability analysis to advanced control design for single helicopter systems, and also covers issues related to the coordination and formation control of multiple helicopter systems to achieve high performance tasks. Ensuring stability in helicopter flight is a challenging problem for nonlinear control design and development. This book is a valuable reference on modeling, control and coordination of helicopter systems,providing readers with practical solutions for the problems that still plague helicopter system design and implementation. Readers will gain a complete picture of helicopters at the systems level, as well as a better understanding of the technical intricacies involved.

Engineering & Transportation

Ge, Shuzhi Sam

Ren, Beibei

Chen, Chang

Fua, Cheng-Heng

Transportation

This book explores helicopter systems, from related nonlinear flight dynamic modeling and stability analysis to advanced control design for single helicopter systems. Coverage includes coordination and formation control of multiple helicopter systems.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. Hard disk drive systems are ubiquitous in today’s computer systems and the technology is still evolving. There is a review of hard disk drive technology and construction in the early pages of this monograph that looks at the characteristics of the disks and there it can be read that: “bit density… continues to increase at an amazing rate”, “spindle speed… the move to faster and faster spindle speeds continue”, “form factors… the trend…is downward… to smaller and smaller drives”, “performance… factors are improving”, “redundant arrays of inexpensive disks… becoming increasingly common, and is now seen in consumer desktop machines”, “reliability… is improving slowly… it is very hard to improve the reliability of a product when it is changing rapidly” and finally “interfaces… continue to create new and improved standards… to match the increase in performance of the hard disks themselves”.

Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems (Advances in Industrial Control)

Peng, Kemao

Venkataramanan, Venkatakrishnan

This second edition of Precision Motion Control focuses on enabling technologies for precision engineering. It has been extensively edited and rewritten throughout with the following particular areas being expanded or added: • piezoelectric actuators • fine movement control • gantry-stage control • interpolation of quadrature encoder signals • geometrical error modeling for single-, dual- and general-XY-axis stages.

Precision Motion Control: Design and Implementation (Advances in Industrial Control)

Huang, Sunan

Tan, Kok Kiong

Real-time Iterative Learning Control demonstrates how the latest advances in iterative learning control (ILC) can be applied to a number of plants widely encountered in practice. The book gives a systematic introduction to real-time ILC design and source of illustrative case studies for ILC problem solving; the fundamental concepts, schematics, configurations and generic guidelines for ILC design and implementation are enhanced by a well-selected group of representative, simple and easy-to-learn example applications. Key issues in ILC design and implementation in linear and nonlinear plants pervading mechatronics and batch processes are addressed, in particular: ILC design in the continuous- and discrete-time domains; design in the frequency and time domains; design with problem-specific performance objectives including robustness and optimality; design in a modular approach by integration with other control techniques; and design by means of classical tools based on Bode plots and state space.

Real-time Iterative Learning Control: Design and Applications (Advances in Industrial Control)

Xu, Jian-Xin

Panda, Sanjib K.

This second edition of Precision Motion Control focuses on enabling technologies for precision engineering. It has been extensively edited and rewritten throughout with the following particular areas being expanded or added: • piezoelectric actuators • fine movement control • gantry-stage control • interpolation of quadrature encoder signals • geometrical error modeling for single-, dual- and general-XY-axis stages.

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Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems (Advances in Industrial Control)

Intelligent Diagnosis and Prognosis of Industrial Networked Systems: Automation and Control Engineering Series

Intelligent Diagnosis and Prognosis of Industrial Networked Systems: Automation and Control Engineering Series

Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems (Advances in Industrial Control)

Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems

Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems

Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems (Advances in Industrial Control)

Precision Motion Control: Design and Implementation (Advances in Industrial Control)

Real-time Iterative Learning Control: Design and Applications (Advances in Industrial Control)

Precision Motion Control: Design and Implementation (Advances in Industrial Control)