This Chapter provides an overview of the motivation and rationale for writing this book. It starts with a general and non technical discussion about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), now known worldwide as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Itsupports and justifies the need for such a book, even though the road to fully integrating UAS in to the National Airspace System (NAS) is long and uncertain. Then, it presents some fundamental definitions related to aviation in general and UAS in particular for clarification purposes, and discusses the contents of the book in a very concise way. This Chapter serves as a summary of what follows in subsequent Chapters and how the material is organized and presented.
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(2009). Introduction. In: Dalamagkidis, K., Valavanis, K.P., Piegl, L.A. (eds) On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8672-4_1
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