NPTEL : NOC:Design of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Aerospace Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Saderla Subrahmanyam


Lecture 1 - Introduction, course content and classification of UAVs

Lecture 2 - Measurement of Flight Velocity and Standard Atmosphere

Lecture 3 - Anatomy of Airplane and Airfoil Nomenclature

Lecture 4 - Examples, Pitot and static tube and differential pressure sensor

Lecture 5 - Generation of Lift and Drag

Lecture 6 - Aerodynamic center and center of pressure, Various wing planform

Lecture 7 - Lifting line theory, NACA airfoil nomenclature

Lecture 8 - Airfoil and Finite wing, Various wing planform

Lecture 9 - Interpreting airfoil data, Cl vs Alpha and drag polar, selection of airfoil

Lecture 10 - Introduction to Airplane performance, Equation of motion

Lecture 11 - Thrust required and Power required

Lecture 12 - Calculation of Performance parameters and selection of power plant

Lecture 13 - Climb Performance, Engine Sizing and Power Plant selection

Lecture 14 - Weight Estimation , Common propulsion systems

Lecture 15 - Weight Estimation contd., Electric propulsion, Battery Sizing

Lecture 16 - Iterative weight estimation and Wing sizing

Lecture 17 - Wing Planform selection and sizing and Flight test of Cropped delta wing UAVs

Lecture 18 - Effect of variation of CG location and Static Stability

Lecture 19 - C.G. location and Longitudinal Static stability

Lecture 20 - Tutorial 1

Lecture 21 - Contribution of tail in static stability and Neutral point.

Lecture 22 - Tutorial 2

Lecture 23 - Tutorial 3