Dublin, Feb. 25, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8w...ric_drones ) has announced the addition of the "Electric Drones: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 2015-2025 " report to their offering.
Thousands of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will be deployed in the next few years for both civil and military missions. Early adoption of new technologies will be employed: from smart skin to structural components and intelligent motors with integral gearing.
Electric power makes the use of wheel power for take-off possible because electric motors can give maximum torque from stationary. It gives us near silent operation, in the air and on the ground, with virtually no noise or gaseous emissions, something valued in both military and civil applications. For long range UAVs where batteries are inadequate and hybrid powertrains are necessary, there can still be silent take-off and landing.
Only electrics can give us new forms of UAV; intelligently swarming robot flies being just one example of new missions made possible by electric power in UAVs.
There is work on unmanned aircraft harvesting power from winds at altitude using kites and beaming it to earth. No, this does not break the laws of physics. Other UAVs are held aloft by lasers and one other project will result in upper atmosphere UAVs that stay aloft for five years just on sunshine.
There is a concept of a military UAV, maybe hybrid electric, which performs its mission then dives like a gannet and hides underwater. Vertical take-off and landing UAVs are now commonplace, the best known being toys that can be programmed in a desired pattern of flight but there are also military and professional civil versions being deployed.
This unique report examines what will be achieved and the enabling technologies that will make it possible. The PhD level analysts have been studying the subject for many years and initially they encompassed much of this analysis in a popular report on electric aircraft of all sorts. However, there is now so much happening in UAVs alone that this report has been prepared to focus on UAVs alone. No other report is as up-to-date and insightful about this subject.
Key Topics Covered:
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Definition
1.2. Types
1.3. Global electric UAV market, number, unit value, market value 2015-2025
1.4. Electric vs non-electric UAVs 2015-2025
1.5. Benefits and issues
1.6. Applications 2014-5
1.7. Professional benefits
1.7.1. Most successful pure electric UAV
1.7.2. All parts subject to disruptive change
1.8. Agricultural uses multiply in 2014-5
1.9. Border surveillance
1.10. Competition for drones
1.11. Autonomy and technology
1.12. Benefits and paybacks
1.13. Effect of 2015 oil price collapse on electric vehicles
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. Definitions and scope
2.2. Needs
2.3. Impediments
2.4. Benchmarking best practice with land and seagoing EVs
2.5. Quadcopter specifications
3. TECHNOLOGIES
3.1. Powertrains
3.2. Electric traction motors
3.3. Shape of motors
3.4. Location of motors
3.5. Traction motor technology preference
3.6. Three ways that traction motors makers race to escape rare earths
3.7. Implications for electric aircraft
3.8. Batteries
3.9. Fuel cells
3.10. Energy harvesting
3.11. Other energy harvesting
3.12. Regenerative soaring
3.13. Biomimetic aircraft snatch and export power?
3.14. Power beaming
3.15. Hybrid powertrains in action
3.16. Hybrid aircraft projects
3.17. Rethinking the structural design
4. SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES AND OTHER EXOTICA
4.1. SUAV
4.2. Large electrical UAVs
4.3. New uses of small UAVs 2014-5
5. UAV DEPLOYMENT
5.1. AeroVironment / CybAero USA, Sweden
5.2. Flight of the Century USA
5.3. NASA testing electric propulsion
5.4. Windward Performance USA
Companies Featured:
- AeroVironment USA
- Airbus
- Aurora Skate
- Boeing Europe
- DLR Germany
- Delta Airlines USA
- EADS Germany
- ENFICA Italy and UK
- ETH Zurich Switzerland
- Flight Design Germany
- GSE USA
- Gossamer Penguin USA
- Green Pioneer China
- Hirobo Japan
- Krossblade USA
- Lite Machines Corporation USA
- NRL launch an unmanned aerial vehicle from a submerged submarine
- Nano air vehicle
- Northrop Grumman USA
- Néphélios France
- Pipistrel Slovenia
- Reconnaissance bugs and bats
- Ricardo UK
- Robot insects
- Rotomotion
- Silent Falcon UAS Technologies
- Soaring China
- Solair Germany
- Sunseeker USA
- Turtle Airships Spain
- US Air Force
- University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany
- University of Arizona
- University of Bristol UK
- University of Colorado USA
- University of Stuttgart Germany
- Vienna University of Technology
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
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