Development of a Low-Cost unmanned aerial vehicle for military affair

This paper proposes the study and development of a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for survey with virtual pilot view that can be applied for both civilian and military purposes. Our prototype UAV is a fixed upper wing type with 1.6 m.-span 0.9 m.-length 0.2 m.-height and 2.6 kg.-payload. Its technical specification is as follows: 2500 m.-range 1000 m.-ceiling 60 km/hr-speed 1 hr-endurance 12 VDC/3000 mA/hr-power supply >90 azimuth-angle adjustable and >45 elevation-angle adjustable. The advantages of our prototype include low cost compactness and light weight. Furthermore it can be applied in several missions such as missing person search sky surveillance geo-informatics etc