OVERVIEW

 Introduction
 History of UAV
 Sub Systems of UAV
 Design Parameters
 Comparison of UAV v/s Manned Aircraft
 Applications
 UAV’s with India
 Advantages
 Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION

 An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) known as a

Drone , is an aircraft without a pilot

 Dronestands for Dynamic Remotely Operated

Navigation Equipment

 Itsflight is either controlled autonomously by

computers or under the remote control of a pilot on
the ground
 History of UAV
 The Kettering Bug was
the first Unmanned aerial
torpedo developed after
world War I

 The birth of UAV’s

began in 1959 when the United States Air Force
officers, concerned about losing pilots over
hostile territory
Sub Systems of UAV
COMMUNICATION:
 Operates on Ultra high frequency
 Communicates with ku-band system
 Operates with uplink frequencies from 15.15 to 15.35 GHz
and downlink frequency 14.40 GHz to 14.83GHz

NAVIGATION:
 Avionics use satellite based system such as GPS and
WAAS
 It calculates position automatically
Sub Systems of UAV
MONITORING:-
 Includes GPS system
 High resolution video camera
 Super high resolution still camera

COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM:-

 Use traffic and collision system
 Smaller aircraft use simple traffic alerting system
 Aircraft use ground proximity warning system

WEATHER SYSTEM:-
 Use weather radar and lighting detector system
Sub Systems of UAV
DESIGN PARAMETERS
 Aerodynamics
 Payload
 Endurance
 Speed and Range
 Communications
 Navigation system
 Launch and Recovery
COMPARISON OF UAV v/s MANNED AIRCRAFT
 UAV can perform an increasingly sophisticated
array of missions due to their small size and
decreased radar
 With a continuous trend of miniaturization in
electronics, the UAV can be made much smaller
and cheaper
 They can work without the use of a pilot in the
aircraft
APPLICATIONS
There are many different applications of UAV’s.
Some of the applications of UAV’s are listed below
 Search and Rescue
 Disaster relief
 Sports
 Commercial Aerial Surveillance
 Commercial and Motion picture film making
 Armed attacks
DISASTER RELIEF
 UAV’s transport medicines and vaccines, and
retrieve medical samples, into and out of remote
or other inaccessible regions
 UAV’s can help in disaster relief by gathering
information from across an affected area
SEARCH AND RESCUE
 During 2008 hurricanes that struck Louisiana and
Texas, Micro UAV’s such as the “Aeryon Scout”,
have been used to perform search for missing
persons
SPORTS
 Drones were used in the 2014 winter Olympics in
Sochi for filming skiing and snowboarding events
 Some advantages of using UAV’s in sports are
that they allow cameras to get closer to the
athletes. They are more flexible than cable-
suspended camera systems
ARMED FORCES
 Armed “Predators” were first used in late 2001 from bases in
Pakistan and Uzbekistan, mostly aimed at assassinating high
profile individuals (terrorist leaders , etc) inside Afghanistan
UAV’s with INDIA
 ADVANTAGES

 Does not contain, or need , a qualified pilot on

board
 Can enter environments that are dangerous to
human life
 Reduces the exposure risk of the aircraft operator
 Performing visual or thermal imaging of a region
 Measuring cell phone, radio or TV coverage over
any terrain
 Can be programmed to complete the mission
autonomously even when contact with its GCS is
lost
 CONCLUSION

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are an exciting

field in the world of aviation, with new
discoveries. Over the next 16 years, UAV’s
will become a significant component of
military, civil, and perhaps even
commercial aviation