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Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1.1. Definition 1.2. Types 1.3. Global electric UAV market, number, unit value, market value 2015-2025 1.4. Electric vs non-electric UAVs 2015-2025 1.5. Benefits and issues 1.6. Applications 2014-5 1.7. Professional benefits
1.7.1. Most successful pure electric UAV
1.7.2. All parts subject to disruptive change 1.8. Agricultural UAV statistics 2015-2025 1.9. Border surveillance 1.10. Competition for drones 1.11. Autonomy and technology 1.12. Benefits and paybacks 1.13. Effect of 2015 oil price collapse on electric vehicles 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1. Definitions and scope 2.2. Needs 2.3. Impediments and timelines 2.4. Benchmarking best practice with land and seagoing EVs 2.5. Specifications, challenges and functions of small drones
2.5.1. Challenges
2.5.2. Quadcopters
2.5.3. Cameras in drones 3. TECHNOLOGIES 3.1. Powertrains
3.1.1. Pure electric vs hybrid
3.1.2. Convergence
3.1.3. Hybrids vs pure electric UAVs
3.1.4. Range extenders
3.1.5. Superconducting and alternative motor with range extender 3.2. Electric traction motors
3.2.1. Ultra Lightweight motors for electric drones and airliners
3.2.2. 3D printing robot flies and their motors?
3.2.3. Multicopter motors and controls 3.3. Shape, location, number, type of motors 3.4. Traction motor technology preference 3.5. Three ways that traction motors makers race to escape rare earths
3.5.1. Synchronous motors with new magnets
3.5.2. More to come 3.6. Implications for electric aircraft 3.7. Batteries
3.7.1. Construction of a battery
3.7.2. Many shapes of battery
3.7.3. Trend to laminar and conformal traction batteries
3.7.4. Aurora laminar batteries in aircraft.
3.7.5. Choices of chemistry and assembly
3.7.6. Lithium winners today and soon
3.7.7. Lithium polymer electrolyte now important
3.7.8. Winning chemistry
3.7.9. Winning lithium traction battery manufacturers
3.7.10. Making lithium batteries safe
3.7.11. Boeing Dreamliner: Implications for electric aircraft 3.8. Fuel cells
3.8.1. Slow progress with fuel cells
3.8.2. Aerospace and aviation applications
3.8.3. AeroVironment USA
3.8.4. Boeing Europe
3.8.5. ENFICA Italy and UK
3.8.6. Pipistrel Slovenia
3.8.7. University of Stuttgart Germany 3.9. Energy harvesting
3.9.1. Multiple forms of energy to be managed
3.9.2. Photovoltaics
3.9.3. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
3.9.4. ETH Zurich Switzerland
3.9.5. Green Pioneer China
3.9.6. Gossamer Penguin USA
3.9.7. Néphélios France
3.9.8. Silent Falcon™ UAS Technologies
3.9.9. Soaring China
3.9.10. Solair Germany
3.9.11. Sunseeker USA
3.9.12. University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany
3.9.13. US Air Force
3.9.14. Northrop Grumman USA 3.10. Other energy harvesting 3.11. Regenerative soaring 3.12. Biomimetic aircraft snatch and export power?
3.12.1. IFO-Energy Unlimited in Hungary
3.12.2. Copy the birds
3.12.3. How to capture the wind?
3.12.4. Valid physics
3.12.5. How to maintain altitude?
3.12.6. Storage of energy is more challenging 3.13. Power beaming 3.14. Hybrid powertrains in action
3.14.1. Multifuel and monoblock engines
3.14.2. Beyond Aviation: formerly Bye Energy USA, France 3.15. Hybrid aircraft projects
3.15.1. EADS Germany
3.15.2. Flight Design Germany
3.15.3. GSE USA
3.15.4. Krossblade USA
3.15.5. Ricardo UK
3.15.6. Turtle Airships Spain
3.15.7. University of Bristol UK
3.15.8. University of Colorado USA 3.16. Rethinking the structural design 4. SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES AND OTHER EXOTICA 4.1. SUAV
4.1.1. Background
4.1.1. easyJet becomes a quadcopter user in 2015
4.1.2. UAR Postal, DJI Innovations, Estes, ISQ, Scan Eagle 2014-15
4.1.3. Mini helicopters tracking weeds
4.1.4. Drones to better understand how diseases spread
4.1.5. Drones used to monitor behaviour of killer whales
4.1.6. NMSU tests unmanned aircraft over active mine
4.1.7. Multicopter RFID readers
4.1.8. AeroVironment small UAVs
4.1.9. Hirobo Japan
4.1.10. Rotomotion
4.1.11. Robot insects
4.1.12. Reconnaissance bugs and bats
4.1.13. Nano air vehicle
4.1.14. Lite Machines Corporation USA
4.1.15. NRL UAV from a submerged submarine
4.1.16. Vienna University of Technology 4.2. Large electrical UAVs
4.2.1. VESPAS Europe
4.2.2. AeroVironment Helios and Global Observer
4.2.3. Aurora Flight Sciences USA
4.2.4. Lockheed Martin USA
4.2.5. Airbus HAPS solar plane
4.2.6. Boeing and Versa USA, QinetiQ & Newcastle University UK
4.2.7. Japanese solar sail to Venus
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