Abstract
Man wanted to fly all the time in the sky, an unknown world. Until Wright Brothers invented the plane, this dream was not realized. The human desire to fly in the sky is now popularized, and now everyone is looking at the world with a bird’s eye because of the drones. The first advantage of the drones is that they can easily access to any place such as dangerous targets or inaccessible targets, because no people are aboard. Drones do not require expensive equipment to be installed for human safety. The drones have allowed us to experience new horizons that we have never seen before, and they are helping us to do things that are impossible or difficult. Just as smartphones have brought a “mobile revolution” throughout the industry, drone is expected to open a “new world” not only in the information technology (IT) industry but also in various industries. Drones have many uses and advantages, but there are also risk factors such as abuse of terrorism, safety accidents, hacking, and privacy invasion etc. Experts expect that the drones will soon become a necessity for people, such as cars, computers and smartphones. This chapter introduces the basic concepts to be learned in advance in order to fly such drone in the sky, such as drone regulation, drone purchase theory, drone classification, drone flight simulator, and practical flight.
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US FAA (United States Federal Aviation Administration) definition: An unmanned aircraft system (UAS), sometimes called a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard – instead, the UAS is controlled from an operator on the ground [1].
UK CAA (Civil Aviation Authority): Popularly known as drones, but also referred to as remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), drones come in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from small handheld types up to large aircraft, potentially a similar size to airliners [2].
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The Global Air Traffic Management Operational Concept (Doc 9854) states “An unmanned aerial vehicle is a pilotless aircraft, in the sense of Article 8 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, which is flown without a pilot-in-command on-board and is either remotely and fully controlled from another place (ground, another aircraft, space) or programmed and fully autonomous.” This understanding of UAVs was endorsed by the 35th Session of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) Assembly [3].
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The term unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was adopted by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Federal Aviation Administration in 2005 according to their Unmanned Aircraft System Roadmap 2005–2030 [5]. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the British Civil Aviation Authority adopted this term, also used in the European Union’s Single-European-Sky (SES) Air-Traffic-Management (A™) Research (SESAR Joint Undertaking) roadmap for 2020 [6].
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U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) UAV Roadmap 2002–2027 states that UAV does not carry a human operator, can be recoverable, be piloted remotely, uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift and can fly autonomously [4].
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Stealth means movement that is quiet and careful in order not to be seen or heard, or secret action. Stealth aircraft are designed to avoid detection using a variety of technologies that reduce reflection/emission of radar, infrared [9] visible light, radio-frequency (RF) spectrum, and audio, collectively known as stealth technology [10].
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Vehicles that fly at supersonic speeds are flying faster than the speed of sound.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation. These include the air traffic management, the certification of personnel and aircraft.
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Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere. It is not the same as aerospace, which is the general term for Earth’s atmosphere and the outer space in its vicinity [4].
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC regulates uses of radio frequency spectrum in the United States.
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Auto-flight, autonomy and self-flying, or self-piloting are interchangeable terms. Automatic return is usually referred to as RTL (Return To Launch), Return To Home and Return To Base, such as RTH and RTB).
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Um, JS. (2019). Drone Flight Ready. In: Drones as Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3741-3_2
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