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ISBN 10: 0081023587
ISBN 13: 9780081023587
Author: Franck Cazaurang, Kelly Cohen, Manish Kumar
Multi-rotor Platform Based UAV Systems provides an excellent opportunity for experiential learning, capability augmentation and confidence-building for senior level undergraduates, entry-level graduates, engineers working in government agencies, and industry involved in UAV R&D. Topics in this book include an introduction to VTOL multi-copter UAV platforms, UAV system architecture, integration in the national airspace, including UAV classification and associated missions, regulation and safety, certification and air traffic management, integrated mission planning, including autonomous fault tolerant path planning and vision based auto landing systems, flight mechanics and stability, dynamic modeling and flight controller development.
Other topics covered include sense, detect and avoid systems, flight testing, including safety assessment instrumentation and data acquisition telemetry, synchronization data fusion, the geo-location of identified targets, and much more.
- Provides an excellent opportunity for experiential learning, capability augmentation and confidence building for senior level undergraduates, entry-level graduates and engineers working in government, and industry involved in UAV R&D
- Includes MATLAB/SIMULINK computational tools and off-the-shelf hardware implementation tutorials
- Offers a student centered approach
- Provides a quick and efficient means to conceptualize, design, synthesize and analyze using modeling and simulations
- Offers international perspective and appeal for engineering students and professionals
Multi rotor Platform Based UAV Systems 1st Table of contents:
Introduction: UAVs and VTOL Multi-Copter UAV Platforms
I.1. Background and motivation
I.2. UAV integration, classification, mission planning and system architecture
I.3. Path planning, separation assurance and fault tolerance
I.4. Technological developments: navigation, flight control, situational awareness, additive manufacturing and collaborative swarming
1: Integration in the National Airspace (Europe and USA) – UAV Classification and Associated Missions, Regulation and Safety, Certification and Air Traffic Management
Abstract
1.1 The challenge of UAS integration in the airspace
1.2 Main stakeholders (ICAO, JARUS, EASA and national regulators)
1.3 French regulation
1.4 Communication issues
1.5 Next steps for UTM/U-space
1.6 Obtaining a remote pilot certificate
2: UAV Classification and Associated Mission Planning
Abstract
2.1 UAS classification, general remarks on UAS missions and general market overview
2.2 Operational specificities of rotary-wing UAS
2.3 Examples of civil applications for multi-rotor platform-based UAS
3: UAV System Engineering
Abstract
3.1 Introduction to system engineering principles
3.2 Operational analysis
3.3 Architecture solution design
3.4 Deck-landing navigation constraints of VTOL
3.5 Navigation chain architecture
3.6 Architecture and constraints of the communication system
3.7 Human factors
3.8 Integration–verification–validation
4: Large-Scale UAV Trajectory Planning Using Fluid Dynamics Equations
Abstract
4.1 Unmanned air vehicles (UAV) and challenges in their applications
4.2 Introduction to path planning and fluid analogy
4.3 Problem formulation
4.4 Fluid analogy
4.5 Prediction sets (PS)
4.6 Governing equations for the centralized approach
4.7 Numerical results
4.8 Conclusion
5: Genetic Fuzzy System for Solving the Aircraft Conflict Resolution Problem
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Problem description
5.3 Methodology
5.4 Results
5.5 Conclusion and future work
6: Diagnostics and Fault-Tolerant Path Planning
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Differential flatness
6.3 Quadrotor model
6.4 Flatness of the model
6.5 Flatness-based fault-tolerant control of a quadrotor UAV
6.6 Conclusion
7: LQR Controller Applied to Quadcopter System Dynamics Identification and Verification Through Frequency Sweeps
Abstract
7.1 Configuration
7.2 Conventions and assumptions
7.3 State-space representation
7.4 Time-history data collection
7.5 Overview of CIFER®
7.6 Open-loop system identification
7.7 System model verification
7.8 LQR controller optimization
8: Autonomous Navigation and Target Geo-Location in GPS Denied Environment
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Related works
8.3 System architecture
8.4 Navigation algorithm
8.5 Target geo-location
8.6 Quadrotor dynamics
8.7 Results
Acknowledgment
9: Real-Time Video and FLIR Image Processing for Enhanced Situational Awareness
Abstract
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Literature review
9.3 Methodology
9.4 Results and discussion
9.5 Conclusion and future work
9.6 Acknowledgments
10: Design, Fabrication and Flight Testing of Small UAVs Using Additive Manufacturing
Abstract
10.1 What is 3D printing?
10.2 Preliminary design considerations
10.3 Motivation for additive manufacturing
10.4 Additive manufacturing for design
10.5 Exotic materials
11: Genetic Fuzzy Single and Collaborative Tasking for UAV Operations
Abstract
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Problem formulation
11.3 Methodology
11.4 Results
11.5 Conclusion and future work
List of Authors
Index
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