Aeronautics Astronautics category: 1620 books
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: 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....
The Big Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters
USAF Jet-Powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942. On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered...
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...
by Peter Dancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
This book presents a selection of conference contributions from CARO’13 (Conference on Aerospace Robotics), which was held in Warsaw from July 1 to 3, 2013. It presents the most important and crucial problems of space automation in context of future exploration programs. These programs could involve...
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
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....
by C.A. Rabbath, N. Léchevin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This unique book provides a bridge between digital control theory and vehicle guidance and control practice. It presents practical techniques of digital redesign and direct discrete-time design suitable for a real-time implementation of controllers and guidance laws at multiple rates and with and...
Rocketeers
Visionaries and Daredevils of the New Sp
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“That this story is still unfolding makes it especially exciting to read. These men are still in their workshops, tinkering their way into orbit.” —David Gelles, FORBES
On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space...
Space Shuttle 1981-2011
Stories from 30 Years of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The fascinating oral histories of seven American astronauts - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this historic program, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews divulge new information and some...