Research and Training Program in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

无人机研究与培训项目

• 批准号: 466088-2015
• 负责人: Liu, Hugh
• 金额: $ 12.38万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=657748
• 关键词: Research; Training; Program; Unmanned; Aerial

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hold great promise for applications as diverse as natural resource monitoring, infrastructure inspection (pipeline, railways), agriculture, mineral exploration, journalism, and search & rescue operations. This is the most vibrant sector of the aerospace industry, growing more quickly than any other segment. It is forecast that the UAV sector will continue to experience strong growth for the next decade, and that, globally, almost US$90 billion will be spent on new vehicles and support systems over that period ($82 billion in the US alone and the creation of 100,000 new jobs). While the majority of the UAV market has historically been dedicated to military and security applications, the bulk of the predicted growth will come from civilian applications. Given Canada's vast geographical landscape (e.g. the Arctic) and natural resources, the Canadian commercial or civil UAV market is expected to grow rapidly. Canada has a long and successful history of leadership in aviation. Several Canadian companies have emerged recently to take leading roles in the growing civilian UAV market, nationally and internationally. Teaming up with five of these strong companies, this proposed Industrial Stream NSERC CREATE program is for a unique research and training opportunity focused on UAVs to give graduate students the interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills needed to propel Canadian aerospace companies forward into a prosperous future in this field. The academic team of eleven faculty members from three universities assembled for this program, brings the unique expertise of each member, and collectively spans all key scientific and technological areas related to the design, development, and operation of versatile UAV platforms and their civil applications. The strategic research training in UAVs creates a new interdisciplinary program that directly addresses the Canadian research priorities of Information and Communications Technologies and Natural Resources.**

无人驾驶汽车（UAVS）对像自然资源监测，基础设施检查（管道，铁路），农业，矿产探索，新闻和搜救行动等多样化的应用具有巨大的希望。这是航空航天行业中最有活力的部门，比其他任何领域都更快。预测，无人机行业将在未来十年中继续经历强劲的增长，在此期间，在全球范围内，将在全球范围内将近900亿美元用于新车辆和支持系统（仅在美国，就有820亿美元，创造了100,000个新工作）。尽管大多数无人机市场历史上一直致力于军事和安全应用，但预测的大部分增长将来自平民应用。鉴于加拿大庞大的地理环境（例如北极和自然资源），加拿大商业或民用UAV市场预计将迅速增长。加拿大在航空领域的领导力历史悠久而成功。最近出现了几家加拿大公司，在国内和国际上在不断增长的民用无人机市场中发挥主导作用。这项拟议的工业流NSERC Create计划与五家强大的公司合作，是针对独特的研究和培训机会，专注于无人机，为研究生提供跨学科的研究，企业家精神，以及推动加拿大航空航天公司将加拿大航空航天公司带入这一领域繁荣的未来所需的领导技能。来自这项计划的三所大学的11名教职员工的学术团队带来了每个成员的独特专业知识，并共同跨越了与多功能无人机平台及其民用应用有关的所有关键科学和技术领域。无人机的战略研究培训创建了一个新的跨学科计划，该计划直接解决了加拿大信息和通信技术和自然资源的重点。**