{"id":49243,"date":"2025-06-03T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49243"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:23:21","slug":"first-person-view-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/first-person-view-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Person View Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>First-Person View Drones Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Ukraine used First-person view drones to attack Russia and destroyed more than 40 planes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About First-Person View Drones<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These drones are\u00a0<strong>unmanned aerial vehicles enhanced<\/strong>\u00a0with artificial intelligence to perform advanced tasks with greater precision and autonomy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>By processing real-time video data through AI algorithms, FPV drones are able to avoid obstacles, and\u00a0<strong>carry out mission-specific operations<\/strong>\u00a0such as surveillance and search and rescue.<\/li>\n<li>First-person view (FPV) means that a\u00a0<strong>person piloting a drone<\/strong>\u00a0can\u00a0<strong>see what the drone sees<\/strong>, through a camera attached to its body.<\/li>\n<li>The live video can be seen through specialised goggles, or on smartphones and other kinds of screens, and the drone can be manoeuvred remotely.<\/li>\n<li>Before FPV drones are deployed, a\u00a0<strong>reconnaissance drone<\/strong>\u00a0with a larger range first goes to survey the area and zero in on a specific region that needs to be targeted.<\/li>\n<li>FPV drones have a much\u00a0<strong>smaller range, of a few kilometres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantage: The key advantages are cost and deep strike capabilities while remaining largely undetected.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\u00a0One major challenge is that the drones\u2019 movement through their\u00a0<strong>surroundings cannot be seen by the drone operator.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This can limit situational awareness and may lead to disorientation. At times, another person, a visual observer, may be needed to guide the person controlling the drone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong>\u00a0Such drones are also used in\u00a0<strong>filming and other non-defence purposes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features of First-Person View Drones<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GPS-independent navigation:<\/strong>\u00a0Operates without relying on satellite-based GPS, enhancing resilience against jamming or signal loss.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SmartPilot system:<\/strong>\u00a0Utilises advanced visual-inertial navigation, interpreting camera data to determine position and movement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LiDAR technology:<\/strong>\u00a0LiDAR technology complements the SmartPilot system, boosting precision in complex or cluttered environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>First-Person View Drones FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is a nano drone?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0A nano drone is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that typically weighs less than 250 grams and measures less than 20 centimeters in size.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is a drone used for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Drones now have many functions, ranging from monitoring climate change to carrying out search operations after natural disasters, photography, filming, and delivering goods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/fpv-drones-ukraine-russia-attack-capabilities-10043994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-Person View Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles enhanced with artificial intelligence to perform advanced tasks with greater precision and autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[679,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-first-person-view-drones","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}