Designing unmanned aircraft systems : a comprehensive approach
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Reston, Va. :
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
©2012.
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| Series | AIAA education series.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781621981008 1621981002 9781600868436 1600868436 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xli, 805 pages) : illustrations |
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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.