Small Unmanned Aircraft provides a concise but comprehensive description of the key concepts and technologies underlying the dynamics, control, and guidance of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. It enables all students with an introductory-level background in controls or robotics to enter this exciting and important area.
New! small unmanned aircraft theory and practice
Autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are critical to current and future military, civil, and commercial operations. Despite their importance, no previous textbook has accessibly introduced UAVs to students in the engineering, computer, and science disciplines--until now. Small Unmanned Aircraft provides a concise but comprehensive description of the key concepts and technologies underlying the dynamics, control, and guidance of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft, and enables all students with an introductory-level background in controls or robotics to enter this exciting and important area.
"Presenting aircraft dynamics to nonaerospace students, this book provides a clear description and explanation for the design of navigation, guidance, and control algorithms for small to miniature unmanned aircraft systems."--Eric W. Frew, University of Colorado, Boulder
This review is from: Small unmanned aircraft: Theory and Practice (Hardcover) Thebook was good, but the key lied in the exercises and additional material. Without the additional projects, the book is a little hard to understand. a background color in kinematics, linear algebra and differential equations, Simulink control systems and aircraft structures would help readers. one complaint was that lecture slides was online a few errata compared book figures and comparisons; My suggestion would be to use the most current document
Technologies involved in the modeling and simulation of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with an emphasis on control applications, from low-level flight stabilization to higher level path planning and vision-based control. Topics include coordinate frames, aerodynamics, equations of motion, full non-linear simulation, linearized dynamics models and trim states, force and moment balances for steady flight, flight controls by successive loop closure, state space control, path planning and guidance, sensors and estimation. Students enrolled in this class learn how to use the Python programming language to solve engineering problems. Students gain team leadership and project management skills. Taught in conjunction with ECE 163. Students cannot receive credit for this course and ECE 163.Prerequisites: Students should have an understanding of Feedback Controls and Programming (Python preferred). It is recommended but not required that students have a background in Sensors, Microcontrollers, Kalman Filtering, and Estimation. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
PHASE II: By using only the existing gimbaled optical sensor and onboard mission computer on a small UAS a position update accuracy within 50 meters should be achieved and provided to the UAS navigation system. Current commercial off the shelf (COTS) systems require the addition of external cameras and processing computers which will not fit on existing operational small UASs. This topic will leverage existing hardware on small UASs currently in development or operationally deployed. The 645th Aeronautical Systems Group (Big Safari), who support SOCOM, has expressed great interest in the added navigation capability without having to modify the hardware on their small UASs. With little to no modifications required to current class 2 and 3 UASs this topic will easily transition to the warfighter through the 645th and various remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) system program offices (SPO). For the proposal the following vignette depicts the robustness and performance that is required:
Technologies involved in the modeling and simulation of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with an emphasis on control applications, from low-level flight stabilization to higher level path planning and vision-based control. Topics include coordinate frames, aerodynamics, equations of motion, full non-linear simulation, linearized dynamics models and trim states, force and moment balances for steady flight, flight controls by successive loop closure, state space control, path planning and guidance, sensors and estimation. Students enrolled in this class learn how to use the Python programming language to solve engineering problems. Taught in conjunction with ECE 263. Students cannot receive credit for this course and ECE 263.Prerequisite(s): ECE 141 or ECE 241 or ECE 242; and CSE 30 or ECE 13 or CSE 13E or CSE 13S. ECE 121, ECE 167, and ECE 145 recommended but not required. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Students traveled to Southeast Europe from June 22nd until July 27th to learn basic and advance UAS theory and practice in a service learning project that helped document and preserve cultural heritage sites. Students from Kosovo, and staff from Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB) Kosovo, joined with ERAU students working as teams. Student teams flew small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) to capture images and video of cultural heritage sites. Photogrammetric processing of images provided highly detailed and accurate resources for the preservation of cultural heritage. Students learned, and gained, state-of-the-art UAS-related skills that have direct transfer to future work in the UAS profession. Additionally, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), American University of Kosovo (AUK) will collaborated. The study abroad was supported by the U.S. Embassy Kosovo.
UA.I.B.K20 Preflight familiarization, inspection, and actions for aircraft operations. According to 14 CFR part 107, who is responsible for determining the performance of a small unmanned aircraft?
UA.I.B.K21b (Refer to FAA-CT-8080-2H, Figure 78.) You have been contracted to inspect towers located approximately 4NM southwest of the Sioux Gateway (SUX) airport operating an unmanned aircraft. What is the maximum altitude above ground level (AGL) that you are authorized to operate over the top of the towers?
UA.II.A.K1b General airspace: Class C controlled airspace. According to 14 CFR part 107 the remote pilot in command (PIC) of a small unmanned aircraft planning to operate within Class C airspace
UA.IV.A.K1b General loading and performance: Balance, stability, and center of gravity. To ensure that the unmanned aircraft center of gravity (CG) limits are not exceeded, follow the aircraft loading instructions specified in the
UA.V.B.K2 (Refer to FAA-CT-8080-2H, Figure 21, Area 1.) After receiving authorization from ATC to operate a small UA near Minot International airport (MOT) while the control tower is operational, which radio communication frequency could be used to monitor manned aircraft and ATC communications?
UA.V.B.K6a Sources for airport data: Aeronautical charts. (Refer to FAA-CT-8080-2H, Figure 26, area 4.) You have been hired to inspect the tower under construction at 46.9N and 98.6W, near Jamestown Regional (JMS). What must you receive prior to flying your unmanned aircraft in this area?
UA.V.B.K6a Sources for airport data: Aeronautical charts. (Refer to FAA-CT-8080-2H, Figure 20, area 3.) With ATC authorization, you are operating your small unmanned aircraft approximately 4 SM southeast of Elizabeth City Regional Airport (ECG). What hazard is indicated to be in that area? 2ff7e9595c
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