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- Learn the nuts with this complete course on drones, multicopters, and quadcopters
- Work through step-by-step instructions to learn the five key skills needed to develop quadcopters
- Use this book as a crash course for drones, or as a reference guide for project
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
You'll review key features often missed in other books: a deeper review of controls, step by step modeling, and methods for simulating and designing drones. Although the quadcopter is used as the main example throughout the book, you'll also see how to apply the development knowledge to other aircrafts or aerial systems.
Highly visual and easy to understand, this book features Simulink and Matlab tools, but the skills covered can be used in other environments such as Scilab or other programming languages. Drones To Go merges maker knowledge and technical information with scientific knowledge and design essentials.
What You’ll Learn
- Review the main families of control: geometric, linear, and common dynamic feedback control
- Understand the mathematics of a quadcopter
- Follow step-by-step instructions on modeling and control equations
- Focus on pedagogical development to answer any doubts in the design process
Who This Book Is For
Makers to scientists
Authors and Affiliations
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Centro de Ingenieria Avanzada, Facultad de Ingenieria UNAM, Coyoacan, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Julio Alberto Mendoza-Mendoza, Victor Javier Gonzalez-Villela
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CIC, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Gustavo A Madero, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Carlos Fernando Aguilar-Ibañez
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UPIITA, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Gustavo A Madero, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Leonardo Fonseca-Ruiz
About the authors
Victor Javier Gonzalez-Villela received the B.Eng. degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and 1993, respectively, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico, and the Ph.D. degree in Kinematics, Dynamics, and Nonlinear Systems applied to Mobile Robot Modelling and Control from Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, in 2006. He is currently a Titular Professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, UNAM. Since 2013 he belongs to the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico. His research focuses on Mobile, Hybrid and Adaptive Robots, and Artificial Intuition.
Carlos Aguilar-Ibañez graduated in Physics at the Higher School of Physics and Mathematics of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City 1990. From the Research Center and Advanced Studies of the IPN (Cinvestav IPN) he received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Automatic Control in 1999. Ever since he has been a researcher at the Center of Computing Research of the IPN (CIC IPN). As of 2000 he belongs to the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico. His research focuses in nonlinear systems, system identification, observers, automatic control, and chaos theory.
Leonardo Fonseca-Ruiz holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) in 2002, and M.S. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering with the Specialty of Bio-Electronics by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN) in 2006. Currently He works as a full-time ResearchProfessor at UPIITA-IPN. Is author and co-author of 16 works published in magazines and congresses. His areas of interest are PLC, DSP, Microcontrollers, Automation, design and development of PCBs, and CNC systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drones to Go
Book Subtitle: A Crash Course for Scientists and Makers
Authors: Julio Alberto Mendoza-Mendoza, Victor Javier Gonzalez-Villela, Carlos Fernando Aguilar-Ibañez, Leonardo Fonseca-Ruiz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6788-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Julio Alberto Mendoza-Mendoza, Victor Javier Gonzalez-Villela, Carlos Fernando Aguilar-Iba�ez, Leonardo Fonseca-Ruiz 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6787-5Published: 11 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6788-2Published: 10 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 348
Number of Illustrations: 372 b/w illustrations, 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hardware and Maker