Beholding the industry trends, we can say that a substantial interest in aerial robotics has grown in recent years. Flying surely opens up new opportunities to robotics services to serve several tasks including search and rescue, observation, mapping and navigation along with inspection and maintenance. The technology of Aerial Robotics enhances the human-robotics collaborations for better.
Let’s decode the meaning of Aerial Robotics, an emerging technology in market today.
What is Aerial Robotics?
The pace at which robotics industry is expanding is giving rise to new disruptive technologies which are transforming the existing operations in the industry. When the aerial technologies are blended with the virtue of robotics, Aerial Robotics enters the picture. The technology, in basic, is built to simplify the drone operations automating the digitization of sites and locations through high-frequency data collection, processing, visualization, and analysis.
Historical Background
Without a doubt, the basic structure of aerial robots, unmanned aerial vehicle, have foundations built in aircraft and automatic flight control system. Notably, the first UAV ever made was based on the modified structure of manned rockets and aircraft architecture. The evolution of such technology has always challenged the disruption leading to miniaturization, the agility of flight control, perceptual skills, navigational autonomy and flight endurance along with aerial manipulation.
Current Trends
The concept of system miniaturization, agile flight control, perception, and 3D mapping, autonomous motion planning, Multi-Robot Systems, Augmented Human-Robot and Prolonged Endurance, merged with the unmanned aerial vehicle, is disrupting the prevailing aircraft market for sure. The current trends of aerial robotics booming the industry are:
• Retaining Stability during Propeller Failure
• Convertible Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Aerial Mapping
• Information Gain-based Efficient Exploration and 3D mapping of Unknown Environments
• Localizability-aware Autonomous Exploration and Mapping
• Multi-Modal Localization and Mapping
• GPS-denied navigation
The research and development of unmanned aerial vehicle have accelerated at a fast pace in the past decade. The annual Aerospace Forecast Report released by the US Federal Aviation Administration predicts that in the commercial sector, more than 7 million UAVs will be purchased by the year 2020.
It has also been estimated that the unmanned aerial vehicle market will worth approximately $15 billion by 2020.
Impact on Society
With new technology comes a heap of responsibilities not only towards business and development but also considering its social impact. Every technology that ever existed has influenced society in certain ways mostly proving itself as a boon to mankind. The similar convention goes with aerial robotics too. The technology surely has some indicative applications for the betterment and welfare of people.
Aerial robotics contributes to infrastructure inspection and maintenance of different architectures. The technology also provides with humanitarian assistance.
Precision agriculture, based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops as a part of farming management, is also a major beneficiary of this technology. Along with that, aerial robotics is also helpful in the climate control process.
Above all, the most significant deployment of aerial robotics in the welfare of humankind is security and surveillance. In fact, police and defense forces use drone and other aerial equipment to ensure the security and safety of citizen.
Challenges
The technology of aerial robotics is definitely a great approach to change the world and bring about significant transformation in society. Regardless of what it has achieved today, every technology and its application has to go through different challenging phases which tests their boundaries and odes that not even the sky is the limit for them.
Aerial robotics technology also possesses some vital challenges which need to overcome with time and innovation. The debates and discussion are already tearing the eardrums if this robotics technology is reliable for sensible decision making in the world of intelligent automation or not. Certain other concerns are also creating a buzz around the corner.
• If any particular skill set is required for operating aerial robots?
• Is there any future for aerial robotics technology beyond flying camera?
• If the technology worth assigning complex tasks for execution or not?
• What are the collision avoidance features of aerial robotics?
• In controlled national airspace, will it be trustworthy to fly aerial robot in urban areas?
The industry is already dealing with the talent gap and security breaches in various tech-adoption. Amidst this, the application of aerial robotics adds to the concerns of experts and professionals regarding its potential uses and misuses. This simply implies that future aerial robots have to deal intelligently with uncertainties in their path.
Futuristic Roadmap
Well, it is rightly said that the future belongs to flying robots. With such a great innovation, it is absolutely possible to create a future on wings. This significant technology improvement has paved the way for even more dramatic changes, transformations and innovation in the coming years.
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