A Study on Drone Industry and Global Trend

Existing drones with expensive and limited functions used by armed forces, government institutions and large companies, are becoming cheaper recently, is getting cheaper and versatile for various functions thanks to eyecatching technologies development through incessant development Drones have emerged as the important indispensable presence in human daily living such as politics, economy, social culture, armed force·society·sports·industry etc, using the speedy, free movement characteristics of drone in space comprising postal transportation, goods transportation, medicine transportation, traffic control, facilities management, fire and forest fire surveillance, coast surveillance etc , in addition to the service using cameras. Furthermore broadcasters such as U. S. CNN deeply moved the global society by taking movies and reporting the dangerous sites such as earthquake sites in recent Nepal and Indonesia as well as anti-government protest in Turkey, in safe and various angles of drones. The drone industry as technology concentrated industry using all of computer engineering, mechanical engineering, control engineering, aviation and air space engineering, electronic engineering, requires steady research and investment over a long period. From the material engineering where the structure of drone body is designed and the strength is computed, to the sophisticated automatic control to put the drone in action by real time computation of optimal path from current position to the destination, all technologies start with basic scientific rules. drone Concurrently with drone body technologies, development of devices mounted on small scale drones is being accelerated. In consideration of current speed of dissemination and impact of drones, the age of ‘My drone’, meaning one drone per person, is anticipated to come soon. The global drone market is expected to grow by 29% per year, reaching 82 billion USD size by year 2026. It is the time for manless aircraft industry to indulge in establishing industry infrastructure to enhance competitiveness by government’s policy support, enterprises’ technologies development, and prompt and proper revision of system and legislation. This thesis rearranges and analyzes the technologies, market prospect, major issues etc concentrating on the drone industry, and highlights the related core promising project areas, and focuses on improvement and establishment of direction for drone policy and strategy through analysis·research mainly on support policy for fostering the industry of major advanced countries.