Categories

• Camera
• Follow me
• FPV
• Educational

Components

• Sensors
• Communications (Comms)

Size

• Prop size
• Frame size
• Miniquad, microquad
• Indoor/outdoor
• Foldable, pocket

Use

• Outdoor athlete
• Sports videographer
• Cinematography
• Industrial
• Military
• Delivery/transport
• Search and rescue

• drone = unmanned vehicle (UV)
  • unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
    • copter, one or more rotors
      • helicoptor, one rotor
      • multirotor
        • quadcopter
        • hexcopter
        • octocopter
    • plane, fixed wing
  • unmanned land vehicle (ULV)
    • rover
      • wheels
      • tracks
  • unmanned water vehicle (UWV)
    • boat, surface water
    • submarine, under water

Note. We tend to use the word “drone” to mean quadcopter.

degree of autonomy

An unmanned vehicle might be controlled by a man

The fact that a vehicle is unmanned, does not make it autonomous.

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