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Linear Flight Control Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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This chapter presents an overview of linear flight control and guidance methods for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The chapter begins with a discussion of rotation matrices and kinematic equations of a UAV. The six degree of freedom UAV equations of motion are also derived using rigid-body dynamics principles. The equations of motion are then linearized, and several linear multi-loop closure techniques for UAV guidance and control are discussed.

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  1. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Controls LaboratoryMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jonathan P. How

  2. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Emilio Frazzoli

  3. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Controls Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Girish Vinayak Chowdhary

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    Kimon P. Valavanis

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    George J. Vachtsevanos

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How, J.P., Frazzoli, E., Chowdhary, G.V. (2015). Linear Flight Control Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In: Valavanis, K., Vachtsevanos, G. (eds) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9707-1_49

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