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This Chapter reviews several flight controller designs for unmanned rotorcraft. Flight control systems have been proposed and tested on a wide range of rotorcraft types and configurations. This review includes controller designs for several rotorcraft types such as full-scale, small-scale and experimental platforms (gimbaled on a vertical stand). Existing flight control systems use tools from all fields of control theory by incorporating into the controller design classical, modern and intelligent control techniques.
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The term rotorcraft and the term helicopter are used interchangeably in this book.
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Raptis, I.A., Valavanis, K.P. (2011). Review of Linear and Nonlinear Controller Designs. In: Linear and Nonlinear Control of Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopters. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0023-9_2
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