. Planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft;

. helicopters;

. quadrotor mini-rotorcraft;

. other fixed-wing aircraft;

. blimps.

For each of these it propounds:

. detailed models derived from Euler-Lagrange methods;

. appropriate nonlinear control strategies and convergence properties;

. real-time experimental comparisons of the performance of control algorithms;

. review of the principal sensors, on-board electronics, real-time architecture and communications systems for mini-flying machine control, including discussion of their performance;

. detailed explanation of the use of the Kalman filter to flying machine localization. 

To researchers and students in nonlinear control and its applications Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines provides valuable insights to the application of real-time nonlinear techniques in an always challenging area.