UAV Sensors on Board and their Operation Principle

Abstract

UAVs are unmanned, reusable aerial vehicles, which are remote controlled, semi-autonomously/autonomously operating, or combined. They are capable of executing military and civilian assignments, carrying various payloads to perform certain tasks. The military assignments could be aerial reconnaissance, surveillance, real time information gathering, searching a system’s electromagnetic radiation, chemical- and nuclear detection, attacking, ground and air targets, imitating air targets etc. The wide variety of these tasks justifies the application of special vehicles, which after deployment – by changing the payload suiting the new task – can be quickly deployed again. The UAVs fulfill these criteria. To complete their task the drones must have the skills, which supply the information required by the autopilot or the soldier who controls the vehicle. In the article I’ll present the operation principle and using capabilities of the sensors equipped on UAVs.