Optimizing small multi-rotor unmanned aircraft: a practical design guide
Optimizing small multi-rotor unmanned aircraft: a practical design guide
This design guide was written to capture the author’s practical experience of designing, building and testing multi-rotor drone systems over the past decade. The lack of one single source of useful information meant that the past 10 years has been a steep learning curve, a lot of self-tuition and many trial and error tests. Lessons learnt the hard way are not always the best way to learn. This book will be useful for the amateur drone pilot who wants to build their own system from first principles, as well as the academic researcher investigating novel design concepts and future drone applications.
Drone, Multi-rotor, Unmanned, Aircraft, Optimization
Prior, Stephen
9c753e49-092a-4dc5-b4cd-6d5ff77e9ced
2 October 2018
Prior, Stephen
9c753e49-092a-4dc5-b4cd-6d5ff77e9ced
Prior, Stephen
(2018)
Optimizing small multi-rotor unmanned aircraft: a practical design guide
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1 ed.
London.
CRC Press, 146pp.
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This design guide was written to capture the author’s practical experience of designing, building and testing multi-rotor drone systems over the past decade. The lack of one single source of useful information meant that the past 10 years has been a steep learning curve, a lot of self-tuition and many trial and error tests. Lessons learnt the hard way are not always the best way to learn. This book will be useful for the amateur drone pilot who wants to build their own system from first principles, as well as the academic researcher investigating novel design concepts and future drone applications.
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Published date: 2 October 2018
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Dr Prior gained a BEng Mechanical Engineering degree in 1987 and a PhD in Robotics from Middlesex University, London in 1993. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Corporate Member of the IMechE and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
His research interests are in the areas of Aeronautics, Autonomous Unmanned Systems, Robotics and Design Engineering. He was Project Lead for the MoD Grand Challenge i-Spy team in 2008 and the leader for Team HALO, winner of the DARPA UAVForge Competition 2012.
In 2012 he moved to Southampton University, taking a number of his team with him, and is now Reader in Unmanned Air Vehicles within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. He has been an editor for the International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles since 2010 and Unmanned System Journal since 2013. He is also a non-executive director of Tethered Drone Systems Ltd.
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Drone, Multi-rotor, Unmanned, Aircraft, Optimization
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