Power Choices Rise for UAVs

　　Power Choices Rise for UAVs

　　无人驾驶飞行器（UAV）已成为军事基础设施的重要组成部分，以越来越多的形式从武器运载平台，以更小的和难以跟踪的单位主要用于监视和情报收集。无人机平台具有很强的适应性，允许使用不同的传感器类型，如图像传感器和摄像机，以及光谱仪和化学传感器的复杂的分析，使用高光谱成像和传感器融合。

　　The wide variety of requirements results in a large number of choices that need to be made when analyzing power requirements and the ways in which the power can be delivered. Image-processing and sensor-fusion solutions tend to imply a need for large amounts of processing power， adding to the overall power requirements of the UAV. Although， some functions can be offloaded to ground stations for systems where the captured data is unlikely to be jammed or intercepted over the air， and where the latency of a round-trip processing delay can be tolerated. The image processing may be split such that simpler techniques used primarily for navigation can be kept on the airborne systems but more sophisticated analysis， primarily for use by ground troops or intelligence services， is offloaded via radio communications.