Top Research Papers on Drones

The FCS construct of network-centric systems reduces the importance of individual systems and raises the emphasis on common communications, computers, sensors, modeling/simulation, weapons, training and logistics.

This chapter contains sections titled: 4.1 Types of UAVs, 4.2 Environments, 4.3 Missions and Tasks, 4.4 Human—Robot Interaction, 4.5 Selection Heuristics, 4.6 Surprises, Gaps, and Open Research Questions, 4.7 Summary

Over the last 50 years, Woodward has evolved from an electromechanical and hydraulic motion control manufacturer to a technology leader for advanced Flight Control Systems for UAVs. Woodward designs, develops, qualifies and supports all items required to meet our customer’s total requirements.

International law continues to be preoccupied with questions surrounding unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or, as UAVs are colloquially referred to, drones. This entry in the Encyclopedia of Public International Law explores the history and the international legal issues of UAVs in their varied uses, both civilian and military. With regard to the latter it analyzes, inter alia, the legal requirements under international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The article also references debates concerning accountability, transparency and the use of UAVs in connection with targete...

Last January, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union produced an estimate that, by the year 2035, the drones' sector will create up to 100,000 new jobs and, in addition, will have an economic impact of more than ten billion euros per year. This chapter takes its cue precisely from the central importance of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, and tries to sum up their future. Indeed, despite the enormous success of drones over the decades, many are the criticisms related to unmanned aircraft on board. The first section aims at outlining an historical framew...

Unmanned aerial vehicles have a wide range of applications, and their purpose is every day more important. Construction has been improving, finding the materials that are optimal for carrying out the functions which need to be cope with. Legal regulations for unmanned aircrafts up to 150 kg take-off weight (MTOW) varies from country to country.

The FCS construct of network-centric systems reduces the importance of individual systems and raises the emphasis on common communications, computers, sensors, modeling/simulation, weapons, training and logistics.

Over the last 50 years, Woodward has evolved from an electromechanical and hydraulic motion control manufacturer to a technology leader for advanced Flight Control Systems for UAVs. Woodward designs, develops, qualifies and supports all items required to meet our customer’s total requirements.

Various systems, methods, for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are disclosed, in one aspect, UAVs operation in an area may be managed and organized by UAV corridors, which can be defined ways for the operation and movement of Uavs.

Key benefits UAVs offer journalism are noted before explicating the evolving rules and regulations of the FAA and how those are shaping the use of UAVs for journalism by private citizens, journalists, and news organizations are explained.

guided algorithms that enable the UAV to fly trajectories that increase the amount of information provided by the measurements and improve overall estimation observability, resulting in proper target tracking and an accurate target location estimate are developed.

This article presents a procedure by which SHM technology can be selected, which meets the requirements that have been set for the monitoring of the UAV system, and discusses how this can be linked with Open Systems Architecture for Condition-Based Maintenance.

An unmanned aerial vehicle including a folded shape that is formed and a deployed shape in which an outer wing region extends away from a central wing region with respect to a fuselage is provided.

A simple and low-cost solution of an autonomous aerial surveyor which can do aerial surveillance, recognize and track various objects, able in making simple 3d map is provided.

An unmanned aerial vehicle according to an embodiment comprises a rotary wing, a motor, and an arm body, and includes a detachable battery unit detachably coupled to the body to be exposable to the outside.

The drone broadcasting (broadcasting) for the current position information and using the sensed data set to record the location information of their movement path and in the future the range of drones is provided.

The present invention pertains to a small unmanned aerial vehicle provided with multiple rotary vane sets which are positioned radially apart from the center of the vehicle, and which are driven by a drive means being an electric motor and/or an internal combustion engine.

Increase in the UAVs carrying capacity with the same consumed power for the flight, as well as increase in the flight duration and range at the same consumption power.

A fixed-Wing assembly and the fixed-wing fuselage cooperate to make the flight range of the unmanned aerial vehicle relatively long, and to makeThe flight speed thereof relatively fast, thereby making the unmanned Aerial vehicle have the advantages of both a rotor aircraft and a fixed- wing aircraft.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising wings and tip small wings or pendant tails at two ends of the wings; the tip small swings or pendant tails can be quickly released and fitted manually without tools and can be automatically positioned and locked to the ends of the wings. By designing the releasable tip small wings or pendant tails, it is convenient to release the tip small wings or pendant tails while they are fastened, and tool-free quick manual release and fitting and automatic positioning and locking are achieved; the released tip small wings or pendant tails ma...