2017•NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)Open access

The Science of Drones

Parimal Kopardekar, Eric Mueller

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Drone: the public's term for any flying vehicle that doesn't have a pilot onboard. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS): preferred civil term that emphasizes the drone as a "system". Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): older but common term, especially in academia. Remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS): the military's most common term for a drone, and probably the most accurate.

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Key concepts: Drone, Aeronautics, Term (time), Engineering, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Biology, Genetics