Flight systems and control : a practical approach /: a practical approach. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Flight systems and control : a practical approach /: a practical approach. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Flight systems and control : a practical approach
- Further Information:
- Note: Tian Seng Ng.
- Authors:
- Ng, Tian Seng
- Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Programs; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Preliminary; 1.2 Book Highlights; 1.3 Chapters' Organization; 2 Flight Mechanics; 2.1 Basic Flight System; 2.2 Steady Straight Level Flight; 2.3 Takeoff Maneuver; 2.4 Glider Design; 2.5 Aircraft Failures; 3 Navigational Modules; 3.1 Magnetic Heading Sensing; 3.2 Acceleration Sensor; 3.3 Global Positioning System; 3.3.1 GPS Experiment; 3.4 Integrated Navigational System; 4 Flight Simulator Systems; 4.1 Flight Software and Yoke; 4.2 Aircraft C-130 Simulator 4.3 Flight Determination of Aircraft Performance4.4 Experimental Setup; 5 Tandem Rotor Helicopter Control; 5.1 Fundamentals of Control System; 5.2 Tandem Rotor Modelling; 5.3 PID Control Scheme; 5.4 Elevation Control Analysis; 5.4.1 Elevation Control; 5.4.2 Elevation Controllers Design; 5.5 Elevation Disturbance Control; 5.6 Pitch Control Analysis; 5.6.1 Pitch Control; 5.6.2 Pitch Controllers Design; 5.7 Travel Control Analysis; 5.7.1 Travel Position Control; 5.7.2 Travel Position Controller Design; 5.8 Travel Rate Control Analysis; 5.8.1 Travel Rate Control 5.8.2 Travel Rate Controller Design5.9 3-DOF Helicopter Control System; 5.10 Real Time Control Implementation; 6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System; 6.1 Autopilots; 6.2 Machine Vision Payload; 6.3 Telemetry; 6.4 Ground Control Station; 6.5 Unmanned Wooden Airplane; 7 Rotorcrafts; 7.1 Quadrotor Modelling; 7.1.1 Hovering Body Parallel to the Ground; 7.1.2Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Programs; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Preliminary; 1.2 Book Highlights; 1.3 Chapters' Organization; 2 Flight Mechanics; 2.1 Basic Flight System; 2.2 Steady Straight Level Flight; 2.3 Takeoff Maneuver; 2.4 Glider Design; 2.5 Aircraft Failures; 3 Navigational Modules; 3.1 Magnetic Heading Sensing; 3.2 Acceleration Sensor; 3.3 Global Positioning System; 3.3.1 GPS Experiment; 3.4 Integrated Navigational System; 4 Flight Simulator Systems; 4.1 Flight Software and Yoke; 4.2 Aircraft C-130 Simulator 4.3 Flight Determination of Aircraft Performance4.4 Experimental Setup; 5 Tandem Rotor Helicopter Control; 5.1 Fundamentals of Control System; 5.2 Tandem Rotor Modelling; 5.3 PID Control Scheme; 5.4 Elevation Control Analysis; 5.4.1 Elevation Control; 5.4.2 Elevation Controllers Design; 5.5 Elevation Disturbance Control; 5.6 Pitch Control Analysis; 5.6.1 Pitch Control; 5.6.2 Pitch Controllers Design; 5.7 Travel Control Analysis; 5.7.1 Travel Position Control; 5.7.2 Travel Position Controller Design; 5.8 Travel Rate Control Analysis; 5.8.1 Travel Rate Control 5.8.2 Travel Rate Controller Design5.9 3-DOF Helicopter Control System; 5.10 Real Time Control Implementation; 6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System; 6.1 Autopilots; 6.2 Machine Vision Payload; 6.3 Telemetry; 6.4 Ground Control Station; 6.5 Unmanned Wooden Airplane; 7 Rotorcrafts; 7.1 Quadrotor Modelling; 7.1.1 Hovering Body Parallel to the Ground; 7.1.2 Altitude Control; 7.2 State-Space Control Method; 7.3 Attitude LQR Controller; 7.4 Attitude Control Result; 7.5 Control of the Quadcopter; 7.6 LQR Control Technique; 7.6.1 Controllability and Observability; 7.6.2 Modified LQR Control 7.6.3 The Threshold Value7.7 Quadcopter Computations; 7.8 Multiple Quadcopters; 8 Flight Instrumentation Acquisition; 8.1 Inertial Navigation Systems; 8.2 INS Hardware Interface; 8.3 Sensor Information Acquisition; 8.4 GUI Software Development; 8.4.1 Internal Computation; 8.4.2 Main Function Block; 8.4.3 Input Configuration; 8.5 Robotic Navigational Sensor; 8.5.1 Packet Signals; 8.5.2 GPS Receiving Signal; 8.6 IMU Data Extraction; 8.7 IMU 3D Model Acquisition; 8.7.1 VRML Model; 8.7.2 IMU Model Attitude Control; 9 Recent and Future Developments; 9.1 Solar UAV; 9.1.1 Solar-Powered Methodology 9.1.2 Wind Tunnel Model9.1.3 Flight System; 9.1.4 Long Endurance UAV Flight; 9.2 Wind-Powered Energy Source; 9.3 Fuel Cell Technology; 9.4 Vertical Takeoff/Landing Air Vehicles; 9.5 New Stealth Technology; 9.6 Aerial Systems Improvements; Appendix A: LabVIEW Functions; Appendix B: Tricopter Graphical Programming; Appendix C: Questions; References; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Singapore : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 241 pages), illustrations (some color)
- Subjects:
- 629.132/6
Engineering
Flight control
Astronautics
Electronics
Microprogramming
Systems engineering
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)
Flight control
Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- General
Computers -- Systems Architecture -- General
Technology & Engineering -- Automation
Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- Circuits -- General
Electronics engineering
Algorithms & data structures
Automatic control engineering
Artificial intelligence
Circuits & components
Technology & Engineering -- Aeronautics & Astronautics
Aerospace & aviation technology
Engineering
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation
Control Structures and Microprogramming
Control
Computational Intelligence
Circuits and Systems
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9789811087219
9811087210 - Related ISBNs:
- 9789811087202
9811087202 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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