This intriguing book breaks new ground on an emerging subject that has attracted considerable attention: the use of unmanned micro air vehicles (MAVs) to conduct special, limited-duration missions. Significant advances in the miniaturization of electronics make it now possible to use vehicles of this type in a detection or surveillance role to carr...
This intriguing book breaks new ground on an emerging subject that has attracted considerable attention: the use of unmanned micro air vehicles (MAVs) to conduct special, limited-duration missions. Significant advances in the miniaturization of electronics make it now possible to use vehicles of this type in a detection or surveillance role to carr...
Lecture 1 - Introduction , course content and classification of UAVs??
37mLecture 2 - Measurement of Flight Velocity and Standard Atmosphere??
1h 67 minLecture 3 - Anatomy of Airplane and Airfoil Nomenclature??
59m? Lecture 4 - Examples, Pitot and static tube and differential pressure sensor.??
30mLecture 5 - Generation of Lift and Drag??
30mLecture 6 - Aerodynamic center and center of pressure, Various wing planform?
42mLecture 7 - Lifting line theory, NACA airfoil nomenclature??
50mLecture 8 - Airfoil and Finite wing, Various wing planform??
47mLecture 9 - Interpreting airfoil data, Cl vs Alpha and drag polar, selection of airfoil?
1h 67 minLecture 10 - Introduction to Airplane performance, Equation of motion??
1h 70 minLecture 11 - Thrust required and Power required??
1h 72 minLecture 12 - Calculation of Performance parameters and selection of power plant?
59mLecture 13 - Climb Performance, Engine Sizing and Power Plant selection??
52mLecture 14 - Weight Estimation , Common propulsion systems??
1h 65 minLecture 15 - Weight Estimation contd., Electric propulsion, Battery Sizing??
50mLecture 16 - Iterative weight estimation and Wing sizing??
47mLecture 17 - Wing Planform selection and sizing and Flight test of Cropped delta wing UAVs?
35mLecture 18 - Effect of variation of CG location and Static Stability??
51mLecture 19 - C.G. location and Longitudinal Static stability
46mLecture 20 - Tutorial 1??
1h 109 minLecture 21 - Contribution of tail in static stability and Neutral point.??
1h 89 minLecture 22 - Tutorial 2?
41mLecture 23 - Tutorial 3?
42m