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