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This chapter initially gives information about the rigid body equations of motion of an aircraft and the small perturbation method utilized for linearizing these equations of motion. Then, the equations are specialized for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by taking the characteristics of a specific plane into consideration and they are made appropriate to use in the next phases of the book.
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Hajiyev, C., Soken, H.E., Vural, S.Y. (2015). Equations of Motion for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. In: State Estimation and Control for Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16417-5_2
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