Author Jay Gundlach who has assisted in the development of more than 17 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) while serving as the Vice President of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has released a new textbook titled “Designing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Comprehensive Approach”.
In his textbook, the author covers topics such as design drivers for various types of UAS systems and options for their architecture. The book, which has been published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is part of the AIAA Educational series.
The textbook covers a wide range of topics such as communication systems, recovery systems, payload integration, cost analysis, product definition, remote sensing and operational analysis. The author has also served as the Vice President of Advanced Development at Insitu and is presently the Director of Conceptual Design at Aurora Flight Sciences.
The textbook features several of the company’s products such as GoldenEye 80, Orion, Skate and Centaur. Mr. Gundlach hopes that readers will find the textbook useful for research and analysis on UAV system design. Jay Gundlach is qualified as a Ph.D in aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. He has achieved specialisation in aircraft multidisciplinary design optimisation.