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Book SynopsisNonlinear Control of Robots and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Integrated Approach provides a step-by step-approach to designing control systems for robot manipulators and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Integration of sophisticated control technology is vital to the design of new emerging mobile vehicles, such as personal air vehicles (PAVs) and the next generation of UAVs. Similar technologies are used in robotic manipulators, such as the PUMA range now used in automated manufacturing systems. This book shows the similarities within unmanned aerial vehicle and robotic system design, and will serve as a vital resource in the design of new products and systems.
Trade Review"In one volume Vepa has done a very good job of concisely presenting methodologies and theories for realising the control of unmanned aerial vehicles and robots. It is written in such a way that is easy to understand and hence apply. It is like a toolkit of methodologies and equations to understand various Robot platform problems and challenges as well as control theories and approaches one could bring to bear to solve them in various scenarios. It is also a good book for those who are interested in model based design of control systems.
The way the book is written enables a reader to read each chapter independently thereby making it suited for a quick read to learn a concept or brush up on one’s knowledge. I believe this book will appeal to a wide readership of industrial engineers as well as academics interested in extending the frontiers of control theory on UAVs and Robots."
— The Aeronautical Journal, May 2018 Issue
Table of ContentsLagrangian Methods for Robot Manipulators. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Dynamics & Lagrangian Methods. Feedback Linearisation & Decoupling. Linear and Phase Plane Analysis of Stability. Robot & UAV Control: An Overview. Stability. Lyapunov Stability. Computed Torque Control. Sliding Mode Control. Parameter Identification. Adaptive & Model Predictive Control. Lyapunov Design: The Back-stepping Approach. Hybrid Position & Force Control. UAV Control.
