Unmanned Aircraft Design

Dr. Mohammad H. Sadraey is a professor in the School of Engineering at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), Manchester, New Hampshire. Dr. Sadraey's main research interests are in aircraft design techniques, aircraft performance, flight dynamics, and design and automatic control of unmanned aircraft. He earned his M.Sc. in aerospace engineering in 1995 from RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, and his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas, Kansas, in 2006. Dr. Sadraey is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He is also listed in Who's Who in America. He has more than 26 years of professional experience in academia and industry. Dr. Sadraey is the author of seven other books, including Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach published by Wiley publications in 2012, and Aircraft Performance by CRC in 2016.

• Preface.- Design Fundamentals.- Design Disciplines.- Fundamentals of Autopilot.- Control System Design.- Navigation System Design.- Guidance System Design.- Microcontroller.- Ground Control Station.- Launch and Recovery Systems.- Payloads Selection/Design.- Bibliography.- Author Biography.