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Design of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Prof. Saderla Subrahmanyam · IIT Kanpur

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About

This course introduces the initial designing and sizing process for rapidly growing fixed – wing UAV technology, integrated with its performance and stability analysis and prototype testing

Intended audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate students

Prerequisites: Introduction to Aerodynamics

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 1 - Introduction , course content and classification of UAVs YouTube
  2. Lecture 2 - Measurement of Flight Velocity and Standard Atmosphere YouTube
  3. Lecture 3 - Anatomy of Airplane and Airfoil Nomenclature YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture 4 - Examples, Pitot and static tube and differential pressure sensor. YouTube
  2. Lecture 5 - Generation of Lift and Drag YouTube
  3. Lecture 6 - Aerodynamic center and center of pressure, Various wing planform YouTube
  4. Lecture 7 - Lifting line theory, NACA airfoil nomenclature YouTube

Week 3

  1. Lecture 8 - Airfoil and Finite wing, Various wing planform YouTube
  2. Lecture 9 - Interpreting airfoil data, Cl vs Alpha and drag polar, selection of airfoil YouTube
  3. Lecture 10 - Introduction to Airplane performance, Equation of motion YouTube

Week 4

  1. Lecture 11 - Thrust required and Power required YouTube
  2. Lecture 12 - Calculation of Performance parameters and selection of power plant YouTube

Week 5

  1. Lecture 13 - Climb Performance, Engine Sizing and Power Plant selection YouTube
  2. Lecture 14 - Weight Estimation , Common propulsion systems YouTube
  3. Lecture 15 - Weight Estimation contd., Electric propulsion, Battery Sizing YouTube

Week 6

  1. Lecture 16 - Iterative weight estimation and Wing sizing YouTube
  2. Lecture 17 - Wing Planform selection and sizing and Flight test of Cropped delta wing UAVs YouTube
  3. Lecture 18 - Effect of variation of CG location and Static Stability YouTube

Week 7

  1. Lecture 19 - C.G. location and Longitudinal Static stability YouTube
  2. Lecture 20 - Tutorial 1 YouTube

Week 8

  1. Lecture 21 - Contribution of tail in static stability and Neutral point. YouTube
  2. Lecture 22 - Tutorial 2 YouTube
  3. Lecture 23 - Tutorial 3 YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Saderla Subrahmanyam
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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