• DocumentCode
    41633
  • Title

    Guest Editorial Can Drones Deliver?

  • Author

    D´Andrea, Raffaello

  • Author_Institution
    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Jul-14
  • Firstpage
    647
  • Lastpage
    648
  • Abstract
    Presents an editorial opinion of drone technology. Drones, autonomous or teleoperated flying machines, have been an active area of research for decades. This guest editorial discusses the technology and applications that currently are supported by drones and assesses the future for the use and deploying of drones in the marketplace. Analyzes the benefits of deploying drones, its power system capacity, the economics of drone technology, and applications for future use.
  • Keywords
    Charging stations; Economics; Payloads; Performance evaluation; Power consumption; Power demand; Power transmission; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1545-5955
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASE.2014.2326952
  • Filename
    6827242