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The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 29 2018, @05:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-all-the-buzz-about dept.

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The first global drone standards have been revealed

As drone use grows, rules and regulations remain in flux and vary among jurisdictions. Last month, for instance, the Federal Aviation Administration granted operators of certain drones approval to fly them in controlled airspace in the US, but the UK has an outright ban on using them within a kilometer of airports. To help establish best practices, the International Organization for Standardization has released the first draft set of global standards for drone use.

The draft does suggest no-fly zones around airports and other restricted areas, along with geofencing measures to keep drones away from sensitive locations. The standards also call for drone operators to respect others' privacy and a human intervention fail-safe for all flights. The ISO additionally suggested that training, flight logging and maintenance requirements should be in place, along with data protection rules.

[...] The draft set of standards was released just as the UK's air safety board said about half of air traffic incidents are drone-related. More sets of ISO drone standards will follow, which will cover technical specs, traffic control, and manufacturing quality.

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  • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:10PM

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:10PM (#767764) Homepage Journal

    And you are also wrong, building a gun is not particularly harder than building a drone - somewhat easier in fact I would say.

    You might be right about this up until it comes to making a receiver for that gun in the US. If you have a receiver you can just screw the rest of the commercially made and available gun parts onto that receiver. The receiver is not commercially available and the best you'll legally get is a plate that needs to have holes drilled (easy) and then run through a sheet metal press to form it (not easy).

    The part that I can think of that would be the gun receiver in a drone would be the controller. Lots of cheap modern microcontrollers can handle the load of computation but putting together a kalman filter for sensor fusion is tricky.

    Drilling and bending sheet metal might be easier than making a kalman filter. It really depends on what your experiences are.

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