This work is carried out by Nihal Dalwadi, Dipankar Deb of IITRAM with collaborators.
This monograph focuses on hybrid UAVs called the tail-sitter quadrotor and biplane quadrotor. Tail-sitter quadrotor has only one wing attached to the middle of the quadrotor, while the biplane quadrotor has two wings attached to the quadrotor. Wings generate aerodynamic forces during the fixed-wing mode. This book covers various nonlinear control challenges and strategies to handle them. This book gives the dynamics of hybrid UAVs and various advanced nonlinear controller designs based on them. It also includes disturbance observer design, Adaptive controller design, control architecture to handle partial and total rotor failure in the presence of external disturbances, hybrid UAV dynamics with slung load, and anti-swing control strategy. The book is expected to be helpful to researchers in the field of aerial vehicles and also to e-commerce industry researchers for the efficient handling of such vehicles.
