Aerial Robotics

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 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in 2010
Number of UAVs 10000

worldwide
1000

100

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1980 1990 2000 2010

Predictions of a $10B industry

Military: Surveillance, force protection, warfare
Civilian commercial: Transport, environment
Civilian private: DIY Drones

FAA predicts 15,000 civilian drones by 2020

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Increasingly smaller, lower power and inexpensive

 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in 2015

Over 15,000 drones sold in the US every month

$15B industry, projected to grow to $25B by 2020
Expectations for leading industry applications
Agriculture Photography
Infrastructure inspection Construction
Border patrols Film production 5

Increasingly smaller, lower power and inexpensive

 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Remotely
Piloted Vehicles
(RPVs)

Drones
Aerial Robots

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Drones mischaracterize what these things are. They're not
dumb. Nor are they unmanned, actually. They're remotely
piloted aircraft. - Gen. Norton Schwarz, August 10, 2012

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 UAVs = RPVs = Aerial Robots = Drones

Remotely
Piloted Vehicles
(RPVs)

Drones
Aerial Robots

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 Aerial Robotics

We are here!
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Regulation

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 The Skies will be Abuzz with Drones!

Gartner's 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

acquired by

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 Micro Aerial Vehicles
Boeing
Scaneagle
(20 lbs)

KMel kNanoQuad Gen. Atomics MQ-9

(0.12 lb) Reaper (10,000 lbs)

Bell Eagle Eye (2,250 lbs)

Hummingbird (1 lb)
Boeing X-45A UCAV (12,000
AscTec Gen. AtomicsGen. Atomics
Predator (7,000 lbs) lbs)
Pelican Predator (2,250 Northrop-Grumman
(3.5 lbs) lbs) Global Hawk
(32,200 lbs)

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 Types of Micro Air Vehicles
Fixed wing

Insect flight
Flapping wing
Avian flight

Helicopter
Rotor crafts Ducted fan
Co-axial
Quadrotor
Hexrotor

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Quadrotor

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Quadrotor

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