دانلود کتاب 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, communication, sensors, and payload). A UAV
designer must be aware of the latest UAV developments; current technologies; know lessons learned
from past failures; and they should appreciate the breadth of UAV design options.
The contribution of unmanned aircraft continues to expand every day and over 20 countries
are developing and employing UAVs for both military and scientific purposes. A UAV system is
much more than a reusable air vehicle or vehicles. UAVs are air vehicles, they fly like airplanes and
operate in an airplane environment. They are designed like air vehicles; they have to meet flight
critical air vehicle requirements. A designer needs to know how to integrate complex, multi-disciplinary
systems, and to understand the environment, the requirements and the design challenges
and this book is an excellent overview of the fundamentals from an engineering perspective.
This book is meant to meet the needs of newcomers into the world of UAVs. The materials
are intended to provide enough information in each area and illustrate how they all play together
to support the design of a complete UAV. Therefore, this book can be used both as a reference for
engineers entering the field or as a supplementary text for a UAV design course to provide system-
level context for each specialized topic.