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Introduction.- Systematic Hardware construction.- Software System Integration.- Aerodynamic Modeling and System Identification.- Measurement Signal Enhancement.- Automatic Flight Control.- Flight Simulation and Experiment.- Cooperative Control of Multiple Rotorcraft.- Vision-based Tracking and Landing.- Micro Aerial Vehicles.- Future Research.

<p>Guowei Cai's research area is the development of unmanned aerial systems, aerodynamic modeling and flight control systems.</p><p>Ben M. Chen's research areas include the development of unmanned systems, robust and non-linear control, and systems theory and control applications.</p><p>Tong H. Lee's main research foci are in unmanned aerial systems, adaptive control systems, knowledge-based control and intelligent motion control. </p>

<p><i>Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems</i> explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and provides a complete treatment of their design. The unmanned system is an integration of advanced technologies developed in communications, computing, and control areas. It is a useful testing ground for trialing and implementing modern control techniques despite the challenges introduced by the limitations on direct scalability between the systems of a small-scale rotorcraft and those of its full-scale counterpart. Included are detailed expositions of:</p><ul><p><li>systematic hardware construction;</li><p><p><li>software systems integration;</li><p><p><li>aerodynamic modeling; and</li><p><p><li>automatic flight control system design.</li><p></ul><p>Emphasis is placed on the cooperative control and flight formation of multiple UAVs, vision-based ground-target tracking, and landing on moving platforms. Other issues such as the development of indoor micro aerial vehicles (that have to operate without access to a global positioning system) and vision-based navigation are also discussed in depth. The text is rounded out with a presentation of possible future research directions for relevant fields of study.</p><p><i>Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems</i> will be of great value to practicing engineers in aerospace-related industries and to academic researchers from aerospace, electrical or mechanical engineering backgrounds working on the development of unmanned systems.</p>

Provides the reader with a good complete reference for creating fully autonomous rotorcraft systems Can be easily adapted to the development of fixed- and flappy-winged unmanned aerial vehicles Gives the reader a good source of ideas and open problems for future research Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras