Most people associate the term “Drones” with UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle. However, there is another unmanned aerial vehicle that is called UAS or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. While Drones make many people believe that an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle is something that flies autonomously, this isn’t entirely true.
The UAV and UAS are very different. UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, which means that it flies alone. A UAV may go as far as five miles per hour and be as large as 15 feet in diameter, and it can remain in the air up to one hour after landing. This makes it a real time machine that can go anywhere in the world and do anything that needs to be done without any human help. However, UAVs cannot fly by themselves without some form of human supervision or approval, this is why UAVs have their own safety regulation.
Drones however, cannot fly by themselves outside of a controlled environment. This is where the UAV must go through a safety regulation process before being released into the wild. UAVs must first undergo autonomous flight tests from the United States military, which tests the UAV’s Artificial Intelligence, navigation, artificial intelligence, and also how it interacts with its pilots.
UAV is short for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, which is what we usually think of when we say UAV. The UAV is an autonomous remote control plane that can move around the sky without anyone on earth having to pilot it. The UAV flies autonomously without any physical connection to the pilot. Its artificial intelligence can move and navigate through all sorts of terrain without any physical contact with the pilot or the aircraft. Since UAVs can navigate through all types of terrain, they are able to avoid collisions with other manned aircraft in flight above it. Additionally, UAVs can also scout out and land on locations where manned aircraft may be impractical or dangerous to land.
The reason UAVs have to go through such stringent safety regulation is to prevent human error from causing destruction in the UAV. Human error is notoriously bad, even when operating inside controlled parameters. If something goes wrong with a UAV, it can cost thousands of dollars and more than double a person’s life. It can also cause an international uproar when the Chinese government publicly labeled UAVs as weapons. They claimed that the United States was using UAVs in warfare against China. In response, the Chinese government issued a travel advisory to its citizens not to go anywhere near or within 20 miles of any UAV.
In the future, there will likely be UAVs that can do much more than just patrol our skies. There are currently several different applications for UAVs, and some of these applications include: fire-fighting, search-and-rescue, weather prediction, transportation, air-traffic management, automated warehousing and packaging, surveillance, mapping, and remote healthcare. It may even be possible in the very near future to have a UAV monitoring the health of people in the home before they ever go into the hospital. This is called the “open category” or “open skies” system, and the UAVs that are able to do this will most likely be the first autonomous UAVs in operation.
However, UAVs are not limited to being operated by one person. As the technology develops and flight rates rise, there is every chance that two or more persons will be able to operate UAVs. Even today’s smallest model aircraft can send off a pulse of energy or particles in a small amount of time. Such high speeds may enable aircraft to circle the globe more quickly than is conceivable using a regular aircraft.
One of the most exciting things about autonomous drones is the potential for new business opportunities opening up as a result of the eventual widespread use of this technology. Today, companies like Amazon and Google are testing out their own drones to deliver packages to customers’ homes. If you have a reliable and inexpensive UAV model ready to take on that role, you could become a game changer in the commercial drone delivery space, and you could earn a great deal of money in the process.
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