Expediency analysis of unmanned aircraft systems

Abstract

The goal of this article is to introduce an expediency analysis of unmanned aircraft systems that has been created at the Department of Air Transport CTU in Prague FTS by its employees. A principle of the expediency analysis is to determine if a usage of the unmanned system is suitable for a certain activity. The unmanned system is compared both with the usage of a piloted aircraft and without usage of any flying machine. The unmanned aircraft system is compared from the safety, environmental (including sociological) and financial points of view. The first part is about a current situation in a field of the unmanned aircraft systems and three mentioned points of view. The next part describes most important research methods that have been used for an analysis creation. The third part of the article describes the expediency analysis itself and its creation. There are validation of the analysis and its overall evaluation in the final part of this article.