Unit 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

12 lecture hours

• - Difference between aircraft and UAV - Parts and functions of Fixed
• Rotorcraft and flapping wing UAV, Various Operational History of UAV’s
• Applications and Uses
• Characteristics of Multi rotor vehicle
• Fixed Wing vehicle
• Flapping wing Vehicles and their applications – Defense
• Environmental monitoring (physical
• chemical and biological)

Unit 2 Payloads for UAV

10 lecture hours

• Classification of Payloads
• Various measuring devices
• Classification of payload based on applications
• Hyper spectral sensors
• Laser detection and range
• Synthetic aperture radar
• Thermal cameras
• Ultra sonic detectors, and recreational payloads
• Delivery payloads
• Case study on payloads

Unit 3 Launch and Recovery

6 lecture hours

• Launching systems
• UAV Launch Methods for Fixed-Wing Vehicles
• Vertical Takeoff and Landing
• UAV Launch - Recovery systems

Unit 4 Navigation and Guidance Systems

12 lecture hours

• Dead Reckoning
• Radio Navigation
• Way point Navigation
• Dijkstra’s Algorithm
• A- star Algorithm
• UAV Guidance
• Types of guidance
• UAV communication systems
• Ground control station

Unit 5 Classification of UAV

8 lecture hours

• Very small UAVs
• Small UAVs
• Medium UAVs
• Large UAVs
• Expendable UAVs
• UAV classification by range and endurance
• Informal categories of small UAV systems by size

Unit 6 UAV system Testing

• UAV Component Testing
• UAV Sub-assembly and Sub-system Testing
• Testing 12 20 Subject Code: 3160114 w.e.f