1st Edition

Design Principles of Autonomous Systems UAV, UGV, and AUV

By Narayan Panigrahi, Smita Tripathy Copyright 2026
292 Pages 92 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

292 Pages 92 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book explains unmanned systems including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). It also details system and subsystem compositions and their basic design. The components/subcomponents, employed payloads and sensors, and communication systems used to compose the autonomous system are discussed. It examines generic... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction to Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS)

Chapter 2: Crafting an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Chapter 3: Designing the fuselage, wing, propulsion, and empennage of a fixed-wing UAV

Chapter 4: Application-specific UAVs and their requirements

Chapter 5: Classifications of different UAVs

Chapter 6: Counter-UAS systems

Chapter 7: Design criteria of a UAV for photogrammetry and ISTAR applications

Chapter 8: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

Chapter 9: Essential design concepts of AUVs

Chapter 10: Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)

Chapter 11: Crafting a UGV

Chapter 12: Algorithms, control, and software used for UAS missions

Biography

Dr Narayan Panigrahi heads a team of scientists at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, a premier laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organization, India. He is engaged in building capacity and capability in the research and development of Geographic Information System (GIS) and its applications in different domains and is also pursuing his research for the design and development of indigenous geospatial and spatio-temporal algorithms. He has been instrumental in designing and developing Indigenous GIS for military applications and GIS for cross-domain applications in terrain-bathymetry and space. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Best Graduate & Governor's Gold Medal of Berhampur University (1987), Best Research Award by INRIA France (2012), and the Agni Award for Self-Reliance (2019). He is a recipient of the National Geospatial Award for excellence (2019) and National Geomatics Award for excellence (2023).

Smita Tripathy joined as a scientist in the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme of the Aeronautical Development Agency, Ministry of Defence, India, in 1998. Since then, she has been engaged in the research and development of avionic systems of LCA. She has contributed to the design and development of avionics system, and her primary interest lies in the design and development of avionic systems and subsystems of LCA.