Valavanis K.P. Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy

Springer, 2007, 543 p. — ISBN:1402061137.This edited book provides a solid and diversified reference source related to basic, applied research and development on small and miniature unmanned aerial vehicles, both fixed and rotary wing. As such, the book offers background information on the evolution of such vehicles over the years, followed by modeling and control fundamentals that are of paramount importance due to unmanned aerial vehicle model complexity, nonlinearity, coupling, inhering instability and parameter values uncertainty.