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Aeroservoelasticity
Modeling and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This monograph presents the state of the art in aeroservoelastic (ASE) modeling and analysis and develops a systematic theoretical and computational framework for use by researchers and practicing engineers. It is the first book to focus on the mathematical modeling of structural dynamics, unsteady...
by F. Landis Markley, John L. Crassidis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This book explores topics that are central to the field of spacecraft attitude determination and control. The authors provide rigorous theoretical derivations of significant algorithms accompanied by a generous amount of qualitative discussions of the subject matter. The book documents the development...
by Chenxiao Cai, Zidong Wang, Jing Xu
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems. It paves the way for the gap between frequency-domain-transfer-function-based results and time-domain-state-space-based...
by Amir Abbas Emadzadeh, Jason Lee Speyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars will consist of two parts. One is on modeling of X-ray pulsar signals. The second part explains how X-ray pulsar signals can be used to solve the relative navigation problem. This book formulates the problem, proposes a recursive solution, and analyzes different...
Robust and Adaptive Control
With Aerospace Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Robust and Adaptive Control shows the reader how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events. Driven by aerospace applications the focus of the book is primarily on continuous-dynamical systems.
The text is a three-part...
Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control
Selected Papers of the Fourth CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Held in Warsaw, Poland, April 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The first three CEAS (Counsil of European Aerospace Societies) Specialist Conferences on Guidance, Navigation and Control (CEAS EuroGNC) were held in Munich, Germany in 2011, in Delft, Netherlands in 2013 and in Toulouse, France in 2017. The Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and the Rzeszow University...
by Giancarlo Genta
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots. After presenting an overview of the environments and conditions space robots have to work in, the author discusses a variety of manipulatory devices robots may use to perform...
Foundations of Circulation Control Based Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft
A Comprehensive Methodology from Concept to Design and Experimental Testing
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book focuses on using and implementing Circulation Control (CC) - an active flow control method used to produce increased lift over the traditionally used systems, like flaps, slats, etc. - to design a new type of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft that are endowed with improved aerodynamic efficiency,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management collects selected papers from the conference of ISAMM 2013 in China held in Xi’an on November 25-28, 2013. The book presents state-of-the-art studies on the aviation maintenance, test, fault diagnosis, and prognosis for the...
Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Test Methods, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8
Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Rotating Machinery, Hybrid Testing, Vibro-Acoustics & Laser Vibrometry, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering....
Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design
Using Describing Function Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals...
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles
From Theory to Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace demonstrates the attractive potential of recent developments in control for resolving such issues as flight performance, self protection and extended-life structures. Importantly, the text deals with a number of practically significant...
Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles
Applications to Land, Water and Air Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This edited volume includes thoroughly collected on sensing and control for autonomous vehicles.
Guidance, navigation and motion control systems for autonomous vehicles are increasingly important in land-based, marine and aerial operations. Autonomous underwater vehicles may be used for pipeline...