Uncrewed vehicle

An uncrewed vehicle or unmanned vehicle is a vehicle without a person, including a passenger, on board. Uncrewed vehicles can either be under telerobotic control—remote controlled or remote guided vehicles—or they can be autonomously controlled—autonomous vehicles—which are capable of sensing their environment and navigating on their own.^{[citation needed]}

It has been reported that the armed forces of more than 100 countries have approximately 170 different types of drones in service.

Types

There are different types of uncrewed vehicles:

• Remote control vehicle (RC), such as radio-controlled cars or radio-controlled aircraft
• Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), such as the autonomous cars, or unmanned combat vehicles (UCGV)
  • Self-driving truck
  • Driverless tractor
• Unmanned ground and aerial vehicle (UGAV), unmanned vehicle with hybrid locomotion methods
• Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), unmanned aircraft, either fixed-wing or rotorwing, commonly known as "drone"
  • Unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV)
  • Medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (MALE)
  • Miniature UAV (SUAV)
  • Delivery drone
  • Micro air vehicle (MAV)
  • Target drone
• Autonomous spaceport drone ship
• Unmanned surface vehicle (USV), also known as "surface drone" or "drone ship", for operations on the surface of the water
• Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), also known as "underwater drone" or "drone sub", for operations underwater
  • Remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV)
  • Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)
    • Intervention AUV (IAUV)
    • Underwater glider
• Uncrewed spacecraft, both remote controlled ("uncrewed space mission") and autonomous ("robotic spacecraft" or "space probe")

See also

• Vehicular automation
• Optionally piloted vehicle
• Automatic train operation (ATO), such as the "Driverless Train"
• Robot
• Robot control

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