Unmanned Aircraft Design: A Review of Fundamentals

This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design. The design of manned aircraft and the design of UAVs have some similarities and some differences. They include the design process, constraints (e.g., g—load, pressurization), and UAV main components (autopilot, ground station, communications system, sensors, and payload). A UAV designer ...