This chapter covers three principal topics related to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): (i) general airplane design, making use of practical mechanical recommendations; (ii) modeling the trajectory strategy, to guide the airplane toward the target; and (iii) flight tests to evaluate the theoretical results. It helps to determine the weight estimation of a specific UAV project, namely ECODRONE, and defines stability coefficient while determining the size of the UAV. The chapter helps to evaluate mass, and measure roll, pitch and yaw inertias. A section describes the main features of the auto‐pilot, which makes use of sensors and GPS information to automatically converge toward the target, using SIMULINK model and DYNAVION software.


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    Title :

    Design and Optimization of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)


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    Publication date :

    2013-10-11


    Size :

    22 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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