In the aerospace field, hypersonic flight plays a fundamental role. Some sixty years after the experimental flights of the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, sustained hypervelocity travel is still the next frontier in high-speed transportation.
Aerial robots (ARs) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were initially developed for military applications such as surveillance, targeting, and strike missions. As the use of ARs has become more common in other civilian and industrial applications, the need of understanding all the technical elements and systems involved in these aircraft has become more evident for the academic community and th…