Flight Systems and Control: A Practical Approach (Hardcover, 2018)

Chapter 1 --- Introduction 1.1 Preliminary 1.2 Book Highlights 1.3 Chapters' Organization Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 4 --- Flight Simulator Systems 4.1 Flight Software And Yoke 53 4.2 Aircraft C-130 Simulator 4.3 Flight Determination Of Aircraft Performance 4.4 Experimental Setup Chapter 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 Controller Design 5.5 Elevation Disturbance Control 5.6 Pitch Control Analysis 5.6.1 Pitch Control 5.6.2 Pitch Controller 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 Design 5.9 3-DOF Helicopter Control System 5.10 Real Time Control Implementation Chapter 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 Chapter 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 7.6.1Controllability & Observability 7.6.2 Modified LQR Control 7.6.3 The Threshold Value 7.7 Quadcopter Computations 7.8 Multiple Quadcopters Chapter 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 Signals 8.6 IMU Data Extraction 8.7 IMU 3D Model Acquisition 8.7.1 VRML Model 8.7.2 IMU Model Attitude Control Chapter 9 --- Recent And Future Developments 9.1 Solar UAV 9.1.1 Solar-Powered Methodology 9.1.2 Wing Tunnel Model 9.1.3 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 1: LabVIEW Functions Appendix 2: Tricopter Graphical Programming Appendix 3: Questions References Index