Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles

Aerospace vehicles are a crucial environment for safety-critical systems, and Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles presents a systematic methodology for improving the safety of aerospace vehicles in the face of various occurrences. The book includes fundamental issues related to safety and studies safety control design problems of aircraft using systematic design methods. The expected reader group for this book includes undergraduate and graduate students, industry practitioners, and researchers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Aerospace vehicles are of paramount importance in ensuring the safety of critical systems due to their inherent nature. By implementing an effective safety control system, aerospace vehicles can maintain their high performance even in the presence of component malfunctions and various disturbances, thereby enhancing aircraft safety and increasing the likelihood of mission success.

Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles provides a comprehensive approach to enhancing the safety of aerospace vehicles in the face of various challenges. These challenges include the loss of control effectiveness of actuators and control surfaces, disturbances in observer-based control against multiple disturbances, actuator faults and model uncertainties in hypersonic gliding vehicles, and faults arising from actuator faults and sensor faults. The book systematically analyzes these fundamental safety issues based on the characteristics of aerospace engineering systems. It then delves into the study and elaboration of safety control design problems for aircraft using systematic design methods. The research results presented in the book demonstrate the superiority of the proposed safety control approaches.

This book is intended for a diverse readership, including undergraduate and graduate students, as well as industry practitioners and researchers.

Xiang Yu, a Professor at the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, is the author of this book. His research interests include safety control of aerospace engineering systems, guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Lei Guo, appointed as Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor, is also a Professor at the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interests include aerospace engineering, control theory, and intelligent systems.

Weight: 474g
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367701154