Refined Safety Control of Unmanned Flight Vehicles via Fractional-Order Calculus

<p>The monograph explores the safety of unmanned flight vehicles via the corresponding fault-tolerant control design methods.</p><p>The authors analyse the safety control issues of unmanned flight vehicles which include finite-time recovery against faults concurrence of actuator faults and sensor faults concurrence of actuator faults and wind effects and faults encountered by a portion of unmanned flight vehicles in a distributed communication network. In addition the commonly used simple but effective proportional-integral-derivative structure is also incorporated into the safety control design for unmanned flight vehicles. By using the fractional-order calculus the developed safety control results are able to ensure flight safety and achieve the refined performance adjustments against faults and wind effects.</p><p>The book will be of interest to 3rd/4th year undergraduate students postgraduate and graduate students researchers academic staff engineers of aircraft and unmanned flight vehicles.</p>