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UVS industry terms glossary

Scope

The UVS industry terms glossary is limited to terms that are relevant to:

  • civilian unmanned vehicles and systems;
  • context of unmanned vehicles and systems;
  • how an unmanned vehicle or system may be applied for civilian purposes.

Style guide

  • A term is not capitalized (unless it is a proper noun), and includes an acronym in parentheses, if appropriate, and:
    • A link(s) to a notable source of a definition, or a dronespeak.com definition of the term.
      • Where there is ambiguity or disagreement, a link to a Wikipedia page may be provided.
    • Optional: “Synonyms: (term 1; term (n)).”
    • Optional: “See also: (one or more links to other sources of information about the term).”
  • For each term acronym, include:
    • “See (the corresponding term in the UVS industry terms list).“
  • Append the appropriate country code in parentheses when a term is a proper noun, and sponsorship is by a nation-state (country government), for example: (US).

UVS industry terms

  • Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA)
  • actuator
    • See effector
  • AHRS
    • See Attitude and Heading Reference System.
  • AMA
    • See Academy of Model Aeronautics.
  • AMA Field
    • See Academy of Model Aeronautics.
  • Apache Subversion
  • ArduCopter
  • ArduPilotMega (APM)
  • APM
    • See ArduPilotMega.
  • Arduino
  • ArduPlane
  • ArduRover
  • Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS)
  • autonomous agent
    • See this source.
  • autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)
    • See also unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) (dronespeak.com).
  • AUV
    • See autonomous underwater vehicle.
  • Certificate of Authorization (COA)
  • COA
    • See Certificate of Authorization.
  • DCM
    • See direction cosine matrix.
  • Digi International, Inc.
    • See also: Xbee.
  • direction cosine matrix (DCM)
  • drone
    • an unmanned vehicle capable of purposeful movement without real-time human guidance (dronespeak.com)
    • an unmanned vehicle capable of autonomy (attributed to Chris Anderson)
  • Eagle file
  • effector
    • See this source.
  • FAA
    • See Federal Aviation Administration.
  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) (US)
  • flight plan
    • See also: flight planning.
  • flight planning
    • See also: flight plan.
  • first-person view
    • video images detected by a camera on an unmanned aerial vehicle and transmitted in real time to the remote pilot of the unmanned aerial vehicle (dronespeak.com)
    • May also refer to the process or experience of remotely piloting an unmanned aerial vehicle while viewing video images transmitted from the vehicle in real time.
    • See this source.
  • FPV
    • See first-person view.
  • FTDI
    • See Future Technology Devices International.
  • FTDI cable
    • See Future Technology Devices International.
  • Future Technology Devices International
  • GCS
    • See ground control station.
  • GHz
    • See gigahertz.
  • gigahertz (GHz)
  • Global Positioning System (GPS) (US)
  • ground control station (GCS)
  • GPS
    • See Global Positioning System.
  • hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)
    • See hardware-in-the-loop simulation.
  • hardware-in-the-loop simulation
  • HIL
    • See hardware-in-the-loop.
  • ICSP
    • See in-circuit serial programming.
  • IDE
    • See integrated development environment.
  • IMU
    • See inertial measurement unit.
  • in-circuit serial programmer
    • See in-circuit serial programming.
  • in-circuit serial programming (ICSP)
  • inertial measurement unit (IMU)
  • integrated development environment (IDE)
  • Interim Operational Approval Guidance 08-01
  • inertial navigation system (INS)
  • inner loop
    • See PID controller.
  • INS
    • See inertial navigation system.
  • inter-Integrated circuit (I2C)
  • I²C
  • Kalman filter
  • line-of-sight (LOS)
  • LOS
    • See line-of-sight.
  • megahertz (MHz)
  • MHz
    • See megahertz.
  • MAV
    • See micro air vehicle.
  • MAVLink
  • micro air vehicle (MAV)
  • Micro Air Vehicle Communication Protocol
    • See MAVLink.
  • mission plan
    • See mission.
  • National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA)(US)
  • NMEA
    • See National Marine Electronics Association.
  • on-screen display (OSD)
  • OSD
    • See on-screen display.
  • outer loop
    • See PID controller.
  • PCB
    • See printed circuit board.
  • personal robot
    • See this source.
  • pilot in command (PIC)
  • PIC
    • See pilot in command.
  • PID controller
  • PID
    • See proportional–integral–derivative.
  • POI
    • See point of interest.
  • point of interest (POI)
  • printed circuit board (PCB)
  • proportional–integral–derivative
    • See also: PID controller.
  • pulse-width modulation (PWM)
  • PWM
    • See pulse-width modulation.
  • radio control (RC)
  • RC
    • See radio control.
  • real-time human guidance
    • continuous effort by a human being to guide the movement of an unmanned vehicle over a period of time (dronespeak.com)
  • return to launch (RTL)
  • RTL
    • See return to launch.
  • Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPIB)
  • SiRF Technology, Inc.
  • SiRF III
    • See SiRFstarIII.
  • SiRFstarIII
    • See SiRF Technology, Inc..
  • sketch
    • See also: Arduino.
  • SPI
    • See Serial Peripheral Interface Bus.
  • SPIB
    • See Serial Peripheral Interface Bus.
  • Subversion
    • See Apache Subversion.
  • SVN
    • See Apache Subversion.
  • thermopile
    • See also: ‘flight dynamics (spacecraft)’
  • unmanned aerial vehicle
    • a vehicle that typically propels itself through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, or thermosphere, with no human pilot on board (dronespeak.com)
  • unmanned aircraft
    • A preferred term of the Federal Aviation Administration (US)
    • See also unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (dronespeak.com).
  • Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
    • A preferred term of the Federal Aviation Administration (US)
    • See also unmanned aerial-vehicle system (UAS) (dronespeak.com).
  • UAS
    • See unmanned aerial-vehicle system (UAS) (dronespeak.com).
    • See also: Unmanned Aircraft System.
  • unmanned submersible vehicle
    • See unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) (dronespeak.com).
  • WAAS
    • See Wide Area Augmentation System.
  • waypoint
  • Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
  • Xbee

 

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