PowerPoint used in my high school culminating project.

1. Man vs Machine
By: Isaac Seemann

2. Personal Background
• Long time interest in aviation
• Computer technical type of person

3. Personal Background
Previous Experience – 8th Grade

4. Preview
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

5. Preview
Manned Aircraft

6. UAV History
• Early UAV developed during WW1
– Cruise missile named, “The Bug”
• Redesigned by Germans in WW2
– V-1 Buzz Bomb
• Modernized with GPS

7. UAV Advantages
• No pilot = Less diplomatic endangerment
– Francis Gary Powers’ crash caused political tension

8. UAV Advantages
• No pilot = Lives saved
– Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid prevented lives
lost in Bosnia

9. UAV Advantages
• Fraction of manned aircraft, production and
maintenance costs
– Eliminates pilot costs

10. UAV Advantages
• No human factor = increased performance
– Flight endurance
– Maneuverability limited by design, not pilot

11. Why use human pilots?
Missions aren’t always straight forward

12. Important Pilot Qualities
•Adaptability •Intuitiveness

13. Adaptability
• Capt. Ron Garan changed mission objective to
adapt to circumstances

14. Intuitiveness
• Capt. Landis Cook prevented friendly fire on
allied tanks

15. What’s Next?
Autonomy
“The unmanned system’s own ability of sensing, perceiving, analyzing,
communicating, planning, decision-making, and acting, to achieve its goals
as assigned by its human operator(s) through designed human-robot
interactions”
–ALFUS Working Group

16. The Future

17. The Future
UAV Swarms
Without human control
Require: Adaptability + Intuitiveness = Self-Aware

18. Self-Aware
Problem?

20. Personal Lessons
Military require computer skills

21. Personal Lessons
Time organization

22. Future Plan
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

23. Future Plan
SPSCC to save money

24. Bibliography
• Army Unmanned Aircraft System Operations. 2008. PDF file. This document is in
pdf form. The file is a document created by the Department of the Army
Headquarters covering all elements of unmanned aircraft systems used in the
military as of 2008.I found the information helpful as an overview all
unmanned system elements. The information is reliable due to its origin of
creation.
• Dept. of Defense. Unmanned Systems Roadmap 2007=2032. Federation of American
Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2012. <http://www.fas.org/irp/
program/collect/usroadmap2007.pdf>. This is a pdf document of a
Deparment of Defense publication addressing the future plans of unmanned
aircraft systems from the year 2007-2032. The document helped me understand
the military's future plans relating to unmanned systems.
• Nolan, Robert. The Pilotless Air Force? A Look at Replacing Human Operatiors
with Advanced Technology. 1997. PDF file. This report was in a pdf format.
It gave me information on the history of unmanned aircraft systems and how
they compare to human piloted aircraft.The source was very useful and it's
reliable because of its direct connection to the Air Command and Staff
College.The age of the information does limit its usefulness mainly to past
events.

25. Bibliography cont.
• Phillips, Adrian. "A Secure Group Communication Architecture for a Swarm of
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." MS thesis. Air Force Institute of
Technology, 2008. PDF file. This thesis was in the form of a pdf. The
information gave me specific information on the topic of unmanned system
autonomy. Because of the origin of the paper, the information is highly
reliable.The age of the information does not affect its reliability.

26. Image Citation
• Sitting in cockpit. 28 May 2008. Personal photograph by author.
• Standing infront of F-22 Raptor. 17 July 2011. Personal photograph by author.
• Standing next to Predator. 17 July 2011. Personal photograph by author.
• UAV Swarm. N.d. New Scientist. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/uploaded_images/
swarm-720004.jpg>.
• Francis Gary Powers. N.d. European American Evangelistic Crusades. N.p., n.d.
Web. 23 Apr. 2012. <http://www.eaec.org/newsletters/2004/
NL2004Feb.htm>.
• Hal 9000. N.d. Netbrawl. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.netbrawl.com/matchup.php?mid=11131&bracketid=497>.
• I, Robot,VIKI. N.d. Review JPEG Warehouse 6. Tripod, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2012.
<http://reviewsjpegs6.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/
V.I.K.I.jpg>.

27. ANY Questions?
Thank you for your time