Research and Training Program in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

无人驾驶飞行器（uav）在自然资源监测，基础设施检查（管道，铁路），农业，矿产勘探，新闻和搜救行动等各种应用中具有很大的前景。这是航空航天工业中最具活力的部门，增长速度比任何其他部门都要快。据预测，无人机行业将在未来十年继续经历强劲增长，在全球范围内，在此期间，将有近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10万个新工作岗位）。虽然无人机市场的大部分历史上一直致力于军事和安全应用，但大部分预测增长将来自民用应用。鉴于加拿大广阔的地理景观（如北极）和自然资源，加拿大商业或民用无人机市场预计将迅速增长。加拿大在航空领域有着悠久而成功的领导历史。几家加拿大公司最近已经出现，在国内和国际上不断增长的民用无人机市场中发挥主导作用。与这些强大的公司中的五家合作，这个拟议的工业流NSERC CREATE项目是一个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研究、创业和领导技能，以推动加拿大航空航天公司在该领域走向繁荣的未来。由来自三所大学的11名教师组成的学术团队为该项目汇集了每个成员的独特专业知识，共同跨越了与多用途无人机平台的设计、开发和操作及其民用应用相关的所有关键科学和技术领域。无人机战略研究培训创建了一个新的跨学科项目，直接解决了加拿大信息通信技术和自然资源的研究重点。

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.