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The International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems 2011 was organized by the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems and locally by the Center for Bio-Micro Robotics Research at Chiba University, Japan. The event was the 7th conference continuing from previous conferences held in Seoul, Korea (2005, 2006), Bali, Indonesia (2007), Nanjing, China (2008), Jeju, Korea (2009), and Bali, Indonesia (2010). ICIUS 2011 focused on both theory and application, primarily covering the topics of robotics, autonomous vehicles, intelligent unmanned technologies, and biomimetics. We invited seven keynote speakers who dealt with related state-of-the-art technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and micro air vehicles (MAVs), flapping wings (FWs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), underwater vehicles (UVs), bio-inspired robotics, advanced control, and intelligent systems, among others. This book is a collection of excellent papers that were updated after presentation at ICIUS2011. All papers that form the chapters of this book were reviewed and revised from the perspective of advanced relevant technologies in the field. The aim of this book is to stimulate interactions among researchers active in the areas pertinent to intelligent unmanned systems.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the derivation of computational models from basic physical & mathematical principles, giving the reader sufficient information to be able to represent the basic architecture of air vehicles and their embedded systems. Highly relevant to practitioners, it takes into account the multi-disciplinary nature of aerospace products and the integrated nature of the models needed to represent them. Following on from Volume 1- Platform Kinematics and Synthetic Environment -- which focuses on the modelling of the environment in which aircraft operate -- this book focuses on the modelling of the aerospace vehicles (aircraft and rotorcraft) themselves. Computational Modelling and Simulation of Aircraft and the Environment represents a development of the existing Aerospace series titles from Moir and Seabridge, as the author draws on some of the same examples used in previous works and dissects them mathematically -- thus giving a degree of commonality with earlier books in the series. More high level, detailed mathematics will be allocated to the appendices in order to render the main body of the material digestible as an introductory level text. Includes chapters on dynamics and control, flight dynamics & physics, generic aircraft and rotorcraft, vehicle and mission systems, and integration, operability & interoperability Serves as both a student text and practitioner reference Follows on from previous Aerospace series titles, taking some of the same examples used in these texts and dissecting them mathematically Accompanied by a website at www.wiley.com/go/diston which houses software, animations and useful weblinks.

The Aircraft Designers: A Grumman Historical Perspective tells the behind-the-scenes story of the designers and engineers who conceived and built Grumman aircraft from the founding of the company in 1929 until its 1994 acquisition by Northrop. While Grumman aircraft have been previously documented, The Aircraft Designers focuses instead on the people, disciplines, processes, and anecdotes behind the creation of such past icons as the F6F Wildcat and TBF Avenger and modern-day weapon systems like the F-14 Tomcat, E-2 Hawkeye, EA-6B Prowler, and Joint STARS. Michael Ciminera has identified key team members who contributed to the creation and development of each new design, creating an unparalleled historical record of the aeronautical achievements of the Grumman Corporation. He has also chronicled the evolution from the aircraft design of the past, which bore the earmark of the chief engineer/designer, to today's complex aircraft systems, which require a significant team effort involving such disciplines as aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, avionics, systems analysis, software, simulation, testing, and much more. The Aircraft Designers provides a unique insight into the leadership traits, technical skills, and lasting contributions of Grumman's designers. It will stand as the definitive historical account of the people who made Grumman aircraft a reality.

Global Aeronautical Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS): Volume 1 - Theory introduces the basic theoretical principles of communications, space technology, and antenna technology and their use in air traffic control (ATC) and air traffic management (ATM) systems. Topics Discussed * Development of airborne radio and satellite CNS and how they improve determination, safety, security, and distress alerting as well as enabling more cost-effective flight and ground infrastructures * Fundamentals of space platforms and orbital parameters, laws of satellite motion, new types of launching systems, satellite orbits and geometric relations, spacecraft configuration, payload structure, and satellite link design * Transmission systems, including discussion of modulation, demodulation, coding, error correction, multiple access, and mobile Internet * Airborne antenna systems * Propagation effects important for aeronautical requirements Special Features * A look into the past, present, and future of radio and satellite technologies * Theoretical guidelines, ready-to-use references, and performance evaluations

Civil Avionics Systems, Second Edition is an updated and in-depth practical guide to integrated avionic systems as applied to civil aircraft. This new edition has been expanded to include the latest developments in modern avionics. It describes avionic systems and potential developments in the field to help educate students and practitioners in the process of designing, building, and operating modern aircraft in the contemporary aviation system. Integration is a predominant theme of the book, since even as aircraft systems are becoming more integrated and complex, so are the economic, political, and technical environments in which they operate. Key features: content that is based on many years of practical industrial experience by the authors on a range of civil and military projects; focus on the integration and interconnectedness of systems in modern complex aircraft; updated contents in light of latest applications; and, substantial new material on avionics technology, software, and system safety. The authors are all recognized experts, and between them have over 140 years of experience in the aircraft industry. Their direct and accessible style ensures that Civil Avionics Systems, Second Edition is a must-have guide to integrated avionic systems in modern aircraft for aerospace students and practitioners.

La preparación de este libro ha estado guiada por la idea de que sirva como material básico para la docencia de esta disciplina en los grados de ingeniería de los nuevos planes de estudios. El libro

Modern aircraft manufacturing involves drilling and countersinking hundreds of thousands to millions of holes. Doing this work by hand accounts for 65% of the cost of airframe assembly, 85% of the quality issues, and 80% of the lost time due to injuries. Automated drilling and countersinking replaces traditional hand methods and involves using numeric control machinery to drill and countersink a finished hole one shot (drilling a finished hole without using pilot holes or tool changes). This is a proven cost reducing technology that improves quality where it has been applied successfully. The focus of this book is on automating the process of drilling and countersinking holes during airframe manufacturing. Since this is the area of greatest return on investment for airframe producers, the book provides a stepped approach for evaluating possible areas for applying automation and a detailed description of the process for choosing, acquiring, and transitioning the right machinery for success. It also provides a vision for a 10- to 15-year future state of airframe manufacture. Readers will use the information to: Understand the evolution of automated/mechanized drilling and countersinking airframes. Access decision models and matrices to help evaluate the feasibility of applying automation/mechanization to any airframe. Gain access to a step-by-step procedure to select the right piece of machinery. Learn the necessary processes for testing and transitioning machinery to production. Assess and acquire data to evaluate the effect of the process. Choose and train the right individuals to manage and run the machinery. Conduct cost benefit analysis models. Make recommendations for maintenance and spares. Address socio-economic factors to reconfigure a facility from hand to automated activities. No other book provides such detailed technical, economic, and social information about automating the single largest contributor to airframe cost.

This volume contains an investigation of remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) mishaps and will examine their causes, consequences, resultant corrective actions, and lessons learned. Most undesired outcomes usually do not occur because of a single event, but rather from a series of events and actions involving equipment malfunctions and/or human factors. This book comprises a series of case studies focusing mostly on accidents and incidents involving experimental aircraft. The information provided should be of use to flight-test organizations, aircraft operators, educators, and students, among others. These lessons are not unique to the UAS environment and are also applicable to human aviation and space flight activities. Common elements include crew resource management, training, mission planning issues, management and programmatic pressures (e.g., schedule, budget, resources), cockpit/control station design, and other factors. (Contains copyright material)

The Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI) held its third International Workshop on ATM / CNS in 2013 with the theme of "Drafting the future sky". There is worldwide activity taking place in the research and development of modern air traffic management (ATM) and its enabling technologies in Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS). Pioneering work is necessary to contribute to the global harmonization of air traffic management and control. At this workshop, leading experts in research, industry and academia from around the world met to share their ideas and approaches on ATM/CNS related topics.

Alta tecnología y movilidad. Desde los inicios hasta hoy.

Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures provides a highly timely presentation of the state-of-the-art, future directions and technical requirements of morphing aircraft. Divided into three sections it addresses morphing aircraft, bio-inspiration, and smart structures with specific focus on the flight control, aerodynamics, bio-mechanics, materials, and structures of these vehicles as well as power requirements and the use of advanced piezo materials and smart actuators. The tutorial approach adopted by the contributors, including underlying concepts and mathematical formulations, unifies the methodologies and tools required to provide practicing engineers and applied researchers with the insight to synthesize morphing air vehicles and morphing structures, as well as offering direction for future research.

El objetivo de la aerodinámica civil es la estimación de las cargas aerodinámicas (fuerzas y momentos) que genera el flujo del aire alrededor de los cuerpos inmersos en la capa límite terrestre. Pa

Fatigue of the pressurized fuselages of transport aircraft is a significant problem all builders and users of aircraft have to cope with for reasons associated with assuring a sufficient lifetime and safety, and formulating adequate inspection procedures. These aspects are all addressed in various formal protocols for creating and maintaining airworthiness, including damage tolerance considerations. In most transport aircraft, fatigue occurs in lap joints, sometimes leading to circumstances that threaten safety in critical ways. The problem of fatigue of lap joints has been considerably enlarged by the goal of extending aircraft lifetimes. Fatigue of riveted lap joints between aluminium alloy sheets, typical of the pressurized aircraft fuselage, is the major topic of the present book. The richly illustrated and well-structured chapters treat subjects such as: structural design solutions and loading conditions for fuselage skin joints; relevance of laboratory test results for simple lap joint specimens to riveted joints in a real structure; effect of various production and design related variables on the riveted joint fatigue behaviour; analytical and experimental results on load transmission in mechanically fastened lap joints; theoretical and experimental analysis of secondary bending and its implications for riveted joint fatigue performance; nucleation and shape development of fatigue cracks in riveted longitudinal lap joints; overview of experimental investigations into the multi-site damage for full scale fuselage panels and riveted lap joint specimens; fatigue crack growth and fatigue life prediction methodology for riveted lap joints; residual strength predictions for riveted lap joints in a fuselage structure. The major issues of each chapter are recapitulated in the last section.

There is increasing interest in the potential of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) technology and their wide ranging applications including defence missions, reconnaissance and surveillance, border patrol, disaster zone assessment and atmospheric research. High investment levels from the military sector globally is driving research and development and increasing the viability of autonomous platforms as replacements for the remotely piloted vehicles more commonly in use. UAV/UAS pose a number of new challenges, with the autonomy and in particular collision avoidance, detect and avoid, or sense and avoid, as the most challenging one, involving both regulatory and technical issues. Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications covers the problem of detect, sense and avoid in UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) in depth and combines the theoretical and application results by leading academics and researchers from industry and academia. Key features: Presents a holistic view of the sense and avoid problem in the wider application of autonomous systems Includes information on human factors, regulatory issues and navigation, control, aerodynamics and physics aspects of the sense and avoid problem in UAS Provides professional, scientific and reliable content that is easy to understand, and Includes contributions from leading engineers and researchers in the field Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications is an invaluable source of original and specialised information. It acts as a reference manual for practising engineers and advanced theoretical researchers and also forms a useful resource for younger engineers and postgraduate students. With its credible sources and thorough review process, Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications provides a reliable source of information in an area that is fast expanding but scarcely covered.

This book embarks on a contemporary analysis of the interaction of economics and law relating to air transport, delving into the major issues that plague the industry. It shows how some of the thorny and frustrating issues could be approached sensibly. Among the issues discussed are the anomaly of exponential growth of air transport which makes airline profitability continue to be poor; the legislative impediments in most countries that preclude direct foreign investment in the industry; the confounding and muddled mess behind the economics of aircraft engine emissions; and the inexplicable reality that, although civil aviation is primarily meant to meet the needs of the people of the world, State regulators have upended the equation and given priority to national interests over the interests of the passenger. The book will be of interest to economists and lawyers alike who deal with air transport issues, and also to academics and students in the area of transportation as well as regulators and airlines. Show More Show Less

The definition of all space systems starts with the establishment of its fundamental parameters: requirements to be fulfilled, overall system and satellite design, analysis and design of the critical elements, developmental approach, cost, and schedule. There are only a few texts covering early design of space systems and none of them has been specifically dedicated to it. Furthermore all existing space engineering books concentrate on analysis. None of them deal with space system synthesis - with the interrelations between all the elements of the space system. "Introduction to Space Systems" concentrates on understanding the interaction between all the forces, both technical and non-technical, which influence the definition of a space system. This book refers to the entire system: space and ground segments, mission objectives as well as to cost, risk, and mission success probabilities. "Introduction to Space Systems" is divided into two parts. The first part analyzes the process of space system design in an abstract way. The second part of the book focuses on concrete aspects of the space system design process. It concentrates on interactions between design decisions and uses past design examples to illustrate these interactions. The idea is for the reader to acquire a good insight in what is a good design by analyzing these past designs.

Este manual ofrece los desarrollos teóricos sobre los cuales se fundamenta buena parte de los contenidos de las distintas asignaturas de Aerodinámica básica que se imparten en los últimos cursos del grado en Ingenieria Aeroespacial ofertado por diversas universidades españolas. Tambien trata el analisis del flujo de gases en toberas, por lo que ademas cubre uno de los contenidos clasicos de las asignaturas de Propulsion y de Mecanica de Fluidos Avanzada, incluidas en muchos otros planes de estudio de grado en Ingenieria. Ademas, los contenidos de esta obra trascienden los que normalmente se imparten en clase, por lo que es una importante herramienta de aprendizaje y ampliacion. Por otro lado, la detallada redaccion de la obra y la inclusion de numerosos problemas resueltos, que ilustran con claridad los conceptos esenciales relativos a esta materia, hacen que resulte de gran utilidad para los estudiantes como libro de apoyo para las clases presenciales y como manual de estudio alternativo para aquellos a quienes no les resulte posible acudir a ellas.