Marques P., Da Ronch A. Advanced UAV Aerodynamics, Flight Stability and Control

Wiley, Hoboken, 2017. — 766 p. — ISBN: 9781118928684.Advanced UAV aerodynamics, flight stability and control: Novel concepts, theory and applications presents emerging aerospace technologies in the rapidly growing field of unmanned aircraft engineering. Leading scientists, researchers and inventors describe the findings and innovations accomplished in current research programs and industry applications throughout the world. Topics included cover a wide range of new aerodynamics concepts and their applications for real world fixed-wing (airplanes), rotary wing (helicopter) and quad-rotor aircraft.
The book begins with two introductory chapters that address fundamental principles of aerodynamics and flight stability and form a knowledge base for the student of Aerospace Engineering. The book then covers aerodynamics of fixed wing, rotary wing and hybrid unmanned aircraft, before introducing aspects of aircraft flight stability and control.Key featuresSound technical level and inclusion of high-quality experimental and numerical data.
Direct application of the aerodynamic technologies and flight stability and control principles described in the book in the development of real-world novel unmanned aircraft concepts.
Written by world-class academics, engineers, researchers and inventors from prestigious institutions and industry.
The book provides up-to-date information in the field of Aerospace Engineering for university students and lecturers, aerodynamics researchers, aerospace engineers, aircraft designers and manufacturers.List of Contributors.
Series Preface.Companion Website.
Advanced UAV Aerodynamics, Flight Stability and Control: An Introduction.
Pascual Marqués.
Aerodynamics of UAV Configurations.
Pascual Marqués.
Novel Concepts in Unmanned Aircraft Aerodynamics.
Fixed-wing (airplanes).
Aerodynamic Performance Analysis of Three Different Unmanned Re‐entry Vehicles.
Giuseppe Pezzella and Antonio Viviani.
Nonlinear Reduced‐order Aeroservoelastic Analysis of Very Flexible Aircraft.
Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas and Andrea Da Ronch.
Unmanned Aircraft Wind Tunnel Testing.
R. Bardera Mora.
Chord‐dominated Ground‐effect Aerodynamics of Fixed‐wing UAVs.
Qiulin Qu and Ramesh K. Agarwal.
Rotary‐wing (helicopter).
Dynamics Modelling and System Identification of Small Unmanned Helicopters.
Cunjia Liu and Wen‐Hua Chen.
Aerodynamic Derivative Calculation Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks.
Ranjan Ganguli.
Helicopter BERP Tip: Literature Review of Helicopter Blade Shape Optimisation Methods.
Catherine S. Johnson, Mark Woodgate and George N. Barakos.
Framework for the Optimisation of a Helicopter Rotor Blade with an Approximate BERP Tip: Numerical Methods and Application.
Catherine S. Johnson, Mark Woodgate and George N. Barakos.
Active Blade Twist in Rotary UAVs using Smart Actuation.
Pascual Marqués.
Hybrid Aircraft.
Hybrid Aircraft Aerodynamics and Aerodynamic Design Considerations of Hover‐to‐Dash Convertible UAVs.
Ron Barrett.
Novel Concepts in Unmanned Aircraft Flight Stability and Control.
Fixed-wing (airplanes).
Closed‐loop Active Flow Control for UAVs.
Oksana Stalnov.
Autonomous Gust Alleviation in UAVs.
Ya Wang and Daniel J. Inman.
Virtual Flight Simulation using Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Ubaidullah Akram, Marco Cristofaro and Andrea Da Ronch.
Flow Structure Modification Using Plasma Actuation for Enhanced UAV Flight Control.
Antonio J. Conesa Torres.
Constrained Motion Planning and Trajectory Optimization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Seid H. Pourtakdoust and Jalal Karimi.
Autonomous Space Navigation Using Nonlinear Filters with MEMS Technology.
Seid H. Pourtakdoust and Maryam Kiani.
Adaptive Fault‐tolerant Attitude Control for Spacecraft Under Loss of Actuator Effectiveness.
Qinglei Hu, Bing Xiao, Bo Li and Youmin Zhang.
Quad‐rotor Aircraft.
Novel Concepts in Multi‐rotor VTOL UAV Dynamics and Stability.
Emaid A. Abdul Retha.
System Identification and Flight Control of an Unmanned Quadrotor.
Wei Wei, Mark B. Tischler, Nicholas Schwartz and Kelly Cohen.