
Flight Dynamics and System Identification for Modern Feedback Control
Avian-Inspired Robots
- 1st Edition - August 31, 2013
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Authors: Jared A Grauer, James E Hubbard Jr.
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 8 5 7 0 9 - 4 6 6 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 8 5 7 0 9 - 4 6 7 - 4
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- Presents experimental flight data for validation and verification of modelled dynamics, thus illustrating the deficiencies and difficulties associated with modelling flapping-wing flight
- Derives a new flight dynamics model needed to model avian-inspired vehicles, based on nonlinear multibody dynamics
- Extracts aerodynamic models of flapping flight from experimental flight data and system identification techniques
Dedication
List of figures
List of tables
Nomenclature
Preface
About the authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Abstract:
1.1 Background and motivation
1.2 Bio-inspired flapping wing aircraft
1.3 Flapping-wing literature review
1.4 Scope and contributions of current research
Chapter 2: Ornithopter test platform characterizations
Abstract:
2.1 Mathematical representation of an aircraft
2.2 Ornithopter aircraft description
2.3 Measurements from flight data
2.4 Configuration-dependent mass distribution
2.5 Quasi-hover aerodynamics
2.6 Implications for flight dynamics modeling
2.7 Chapter summary
Chapter 3: Rigid multibody vehicle dynamics
Abstract:
3.1 Model configuration
3.2 Kinematic equations of motion
3.3 Dynamic equations of motion
3.4 Chapter summary
Chapter 4: System identification of aerodynamic models
Abstract:
4.1 System identification method
4.2 Tail aerodynamics
4.3 Wing aerodynamics
4.4 Chapter summary
Chapter 5: Simulation results
Abstract:
5.1 Software simulation architecture
5.2 Determining trim solutions
5.3 Numerical linearization about straight and level mean flight
5.4 Modeling implications for control
5.5 Chapter summary
Chapter 6: Concluding remarks
Abstract:
6.1 Summary of work
6.2 Summary of modeling assumptions
6.3 Summary of original contributions
6.4 Recommendations for future research
Appendix A: Field calibration of inertial measurement units
Appendix B: Actuator dynamics system identification
Appendix C: Equations of motion for single-body flight vehicles
Appendix D: Linearization of a conventional aircraft model
References
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 31, 2013
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
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