Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAV) - Daughter-ships
UAVs can be designed for high altitude, long endurance flights since they
do not rely on a human pilot in the craft. A related concept is using UAVs
to monitor situations that would be dangerous for manned-aircraft. One strategy
for more efficiently gathering data in such a situation would be for a UAV
to carry multiple small UAVs and drop them into a weather system or environmental
disaster to collect data, make measurements, and monitor. Ideally, these small
UAVs should be able to be deployed and then later re-dock with the "mother"-ship.
These craft may range in size between a book and a table.
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Keywords
Aircraft communication; Approach and landing; Autonomous air navigation;
Autonomous formation flight; Computer programs; Environmental modeling; Intelligent
Flight Control System; Intelligent systems; Real-time; Unmanned aerial vehicle
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