An IntroductionTo Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

An IntroductionTo Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
What Is a UAV ?The main requirement for UAVs emerges from the opportunity to perform high risk, dangerous and monotonous missions autonomously. Modern UAVs are controlled with both autopilots, and human controllers in ground stations. Removing the pilot provides addition freedom in terms of manoeuvre performance, size, payload and endurance constraints when compared with manned aircraft.


What Are UAVs Used For ?Since their creation, UAVs have found many uses in police, military, and in some cases, civil applications. Military roles include tactical reconnaissance, targeting and battle damage indication, electronic warfare in addition to active combat. UAVs offer benefits both in survivability and expendability, as well as being potentially more cost effective than returned systems. Civilian uses include such diverse roles as agricultural crop spraying, electrical power line checking, atmospheric research, data-link relay and traffic/security surveillance.

About the Speaker:

Mr. Julian Tan has over 7 years of experience in the research and development of UAVs in Malaysia. Some of his involvement includes installation of autopilot that has successfully flown an UAV in full autonomous mod, as Malaysian Junior Ambassadors during ASEAN SEAXXI (2001), extending invitations for the ASEAN member countries via experimental aircraft that he help to maintain and assembled. The experimental aircraft is in Malaysia Book of Records for crossing South China Sea. He holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Aerospace.

There will be ample opportunities for discussion and questions and answer during this presentation.

Date: 4 March 2009
Venue: SA 226
Time: 3pm-5pm

Non-IEEE members : RM3 per person , IEEE members : free
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