Time-critical cooperative control of autonomous air vehicles

Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles integrates in an easy-to-read style a significant portion of the research conducted in the area. This book introduces a set of novel ideas that are quite unique and may suggest a completely new approach to solving their problems.

The book is virtually self-contained and gives the reader a complete, integrated presentation of the different concepts, mathematical tools, and control solutions need to tackle and solve a number of problems in the general area of Critical Cooperative Control.

By including case studies of fixed-wing and multirotor UAVs, the book effectively broadens the scope of application of the methodologies developed. The theoretical presentation is complemented with the results of flight tests with real UAVs.

This book is intended to researchers and practitioners from the academia, research labs, commercial companies, government, and the international aerospace industry.

·         Motivates and addresses the important topic of Time-Critical Cooperative Control of UAVs.

·         Formulates the problems to be solved rigorously.

·         Describes solutions - to the problems formulated - that are rooted in solid dynamical systems theory.

·         Applies the solutions developed to fixed-wing and multirotor UAVs.