Designing unmanned aircraft systems a comprehensive approach

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Gundlach, Jay, 1975-
Corporate Author American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Reston, Va. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, c2012.
SeriesAIAA education series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781621981008
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xli, 805 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Overview of unmanned aircraft systems
  • Unmanned aircraft categories
  • Initial unmanned-aircraft sizing
  • Unmanned-aircraft geometry and configurations
  • Aerodynamics
  • Mass properties
  • Structures
  • Propulsion systems
  • Flight performance
  • Avionics, flight software, and subsystems
  • Launch and recovery
  • Communication systems
  • Physics of remote sensing and in situ measurement
  • Missions and payloads
  • Mission systems integration
  • Command, control, tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination
  • Reliability, maintainability, supportability, and transportability
  • System synthesis and mission effectiveness
  • Cost analysis
  • Product definition and requirements development.