Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Name: Institutional Affiliation: Instructor’s Name: Date Due: Executive summary Unmanned aerial vehicle also called a drone is an aircraft lacking human pilot. The machine operates by a computer installed in the vehicle. The operation manual entails the use of a remote control by a pilot located outside the aircraft. Unmanned aerial vehicles exist in various shapes‚ sizes and configuration. Use of unmanned aerial vehicles increases the
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Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Introduction Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are aircrafts that do not require to be piloted by human beings; they do not have human pilots when they are in motion. Their flight is mostly guided by remote controls or by autonomously by computers. The typical launch and recovery of such vehicles is dependent on the capacity of an automatic function. The automatic function is dependent on some external operatives on the ground. Their main applications are military
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CONTROL OF COOPERATIVE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES A Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) by Kostas ALEXIS Dipl. ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING THESIS NO: 277 JULY 2011 The following dissertation by Kostas Alexis‚ Dipl. Electrical & Computer Engineering‚ is approved: “Control of Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” The dissertation was presented in public on July 6th . The seven member committee:
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Memorandum TO: Congressman Ed Markey‚ Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus FROM: RE: Oversight methods for domestic UAV use Date: May 24‚ 2012 Background Until recently‚ almost all domestic use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) was prohibited by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). At the behest of Congress however‚ the FAA has begun to take incremental steps to allow the widespread use of UAVs throughout the United States. In the first rulemaking since it was asked to ease regulations
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Nano Aerial Vehicles and Micro Aerial Vehicles are primarily used for military applications which include Intelligence‚ Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR missions)‚ and used for both indoor and outdoor missions‚ which represents a challenging environment factor to overcome. The use of MAVs and NAVs reduce human risk as it does not require an on-board pilot for the mission‚ they also tend to improve the assessment of danger and have visibility in the dark when equipped with infrared cameras. Other
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1 Special Issue on Unmanned Ground Vehicles FIGURES OMITTED Unmanned Systems Magazine Summer 1995‚ volume 13‚ number 3 UGV HISTORY 101: A Brief History of Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Development Efforts Douglas W. Gage (gage@nosc.mil) "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- George Santayana INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief survey of a number of different threads of development that have brought the UGV field to its current state
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February 27‚ 2013 Unmanned Drones: Immoral? I chose to research two articles that take opposing sides on the use of tactical unmanned aerial vehicle drones that are being used in combat over seas seeing as how there is so much controversy surrounding this topic in the news nowadays. “The unmanned aerial vehicle also known as UAV is an aircraft with no pilot on board. UAV’s can be remote controlled or fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans” (www.theuav.com). These unmanned “drones” are
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The MQ-8B Fire Scout is a specific example of a rotary-propelled type UAV. The Fire Scout’s “Vertical Take-Off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTOL-UAV) system is designed to operate from air-capable ships.” (U.S. Navy) This type of system is often found on guided missile frigates‚ or simply a Navy battleship‚ as well as Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)‚ which are specifically Navy ships close to shore lines used for immediate combat. (U.S. Navy) The reason the Fire Scout is found on LCS’s
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Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Market by product Published on: - 28th April 2014 The global UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles) market research report categorizes the global market on the basis of application sectors‚ geography‚ and by country‚ including forecasting revenues‚ market share‚ and analyzing trends in each of the sub sectors. The UUV market based on type is categorized as ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicles) and AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles). The market is categorized into oil and
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Running Heading: HUMAN FACTORS RELATED TO UAVS A Study of Human Factors Related to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide Abstract This research paper is a study of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)‚ and their relationship in Human factors‚ specifically the military’s use of UAVs for both the current reconnaissance and combat missions and the future possible cargo missions. The idea of UAVs has fascinated me ever since I was a kid‚ flying radio
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