Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Context:
- It can range from being a Fixed-Wing UAV to being a Rotary-Blade UAV (e.g. multicopters).
- It can range from being a UAV Working Robot (such as a weaponized UAV) to being a UAV Hobby Robot.
- It can range from being a Remotely Guided UAV to being an Autonomous UAV.
Example(s):
- a UAV Quadrocopter.
- IAI Pioneer.
- RQ-1 Predator.
- a Solar-Electric High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) UAV, such as BAE Systems PHASA-35.
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Counter-Example(s):
See: Remote Control Vehicle, Aviator, Aircraft, Rocket, Drone Racing, Aircraft Pilot, Vehicular Automation, Agricultural Drone, Delivery Drone, Aerial Photography.

References

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle Retrieved:2023-7-19.
- An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs were originally developed through the twentieth century for military missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" for humans, and by the twenty-first, they had become essential assets to most militaries. As control technologies improved and costs fell, their use expanded to many non-military applications. These include aerial photography, precision agriculture, forest fire monitoring,^[1] river monitoring,^[2] environmental monitoring, policing and surveillance, infrastructure inspections, smuggling, product deliveries, entertainment, and drone racing.

(Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle Retrieved:2020-3-8.
- An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (or uncrewed aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone) is an aircraft without a human pilot on board and a type of unmanned vehicle. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS); which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. ...

↑ Hu, J.; Niu, H.; Carrasco, J.; Lennox, B.; Arvin, F., "Fault-tolerant cooperative navigation of networked UAV swarms for forest fire monitoring " Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022.
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Samuel Greengard. (2019). “When Drones Fly." In: Communications of the ACM, November 2019, Vol. 62 No. 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3360913
- QUOTE: ... Yet, despite rapidly evolving capabilities, it also is clear that autonomous drones have not completely mastered the art and science of navigating and accomplishing their designated task. Buildings, birds, power lines, trees and people remain formidable obstacles for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), as they are known. Fog, snow, smoke, and dust present additional challenges.
  It is one thing to showcase a drone in a controlled environment; it is quite another to have it operate flawlessly in the wild. UAVs must have near-perfect vision and sensing, as well as the ability to navigate areas where satellite and communications signals cannot reach and need backup and fail-safe systems that can take control of the drone if

when something goes astray. ...

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/unmanned_aerial_vehicle Retrieved:2015-2-2.
- An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone and also referred to as an unpiloted aerial vehicle and a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. ...