Description

Type

Postgraduate
Location

Southampton

Start date

September

Introducing your degree
The future of exploration, transportation and conflict is in unmanned aircraft. Be the future and start a fascinating career on the precipice of national intelligence and technological advancements with a masters in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Design. Sometimes referred to as drones, UAVs, UAS or RPAS, unmanned aircraft are revolutionising our ability to monitor and understand our environment.
This industry-led course focuses on the cutting-edge design of these sophisticated vehicles and is ideally suited to engineers looking to specialise or to enter into this fast-paced industry.

Facilities

Southampton (Hampshire)

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University Road, SO17 1BJ

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

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Subjects

Credit
Design
Project
Systems
Industry
Team Training

Course programme

Year 1

The first eight months are normally spent mainly on the taught component, with lectures divided into two 12-week periods (semesters 1 and 2), and with exams at the end of each semester.

The final four months are spent full-time on an Individual Project, which accounts for 60 credit points, six of which are allocated to an oral presentation.

Group Design Project

The Group Design Project enables students to undertake a full design/build/test cycle for a given Unmanned Systems Design brief within a multidisciplinary team of students. Students will be put into small teams. Each team will be given a civil or commercial mission specification. They will then have a number of milestones they will have to meet, including concept generation, evaluation and selection, culminating in the construction and testing of the system in the real-world.

Autopilot systems

Each team will be issued with a sophisticated autopilot system, ground station and telemetry.

The autopilot serves two purposes. Firstly it will enable each team to accurately measure the performance of their aircraft (stall speed, maximum level speed, rate of climb etc). Secondly students will be able to write control scripts for their test flights so that all test flying can be carried out under automatic control. This has the benefit of giving students experience of flight automation and autonomy but also allows the aircraft to fly much more accurate flight profiles than is possible under manual control.

Individual project

Each student will be required to undertake an individual project. Generally students will undertake a project of their own choosing. The individual project will start in the second semester and will be completed in September.

Examples of individual projects include:

Development of miniature variable pitch propulsion
Multi-rotor automated Li-Po battery changer
In-flight thrust measuring
Structronics
Automated camera control and feature recognition
High precision automated landing
Novel Low cost higher accuracy manufacturing processes
Hybrid Vehicles
Comparison of fixed and retractable undercarriages
High precision height sensing
Horizon sensing
Automated tracking of vehicles

Semester One

The compulsory modules total 90 credit points. You must select 30 credits from the optional modules below.

Compulsory

SESA6078Credit[?]