NOC:Design of fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (USB)

Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. Saderla Subrahmanyam

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Kanpur

NPTEL Lecture Count : 23

NPTEL Course Size : 8.6 GB

NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included

NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)

Lecture Titles:

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