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
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