UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES(UAV) AND SAFETY: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK, BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND CURRENT APPROACHES
Kitapta bölümler > Araştırma Kitabı · 2025
Yazarlar: Rüstem Barış YEŞİLAY, Mehmet Arda Özden, Armağan MACİT, Volkan YAVAŞ
Entrepreneurship and the Human Factor: From A Management And Organizational Perspective, Araştırma Kitabı, BİDGE Yayınları, Diğer, Uluslararası, 2025, ss 130-151, Türkiye, Ankara
Özet
<p>Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been identified as one of the most revolutionary technologies that the 21st century will experience. Unmanned aerial vehicles have not only outlived their military application origin but have become an indispensable tool in people’s lives. UAVs have also been identified as the technology of the future and have opened a whole economy and employment arena, including logistics, agricultural, mapping, and search and rescue missions, owing to the advantageous costs and flexibility of UAVs (Macit et al. 2025). This rapid development has, however, brought forth a whole host of aviation safety concerns.</p><p>Though research on UAVs has been conducted in academia since the 1960s, it was first in studies of a modern kind that are based on research by Seaberg, Etter,</p><p>and Records in 1972. Currently, however, research on UAVs in relation to flight safety has proliferated. Scopus searches on thousands of documents that combine "UAV" and "safety" concepts in research are available, as documented by Macit et al. in 2025. The most important lesson gleaned from such research is that "the human factor, not technological shortcomings, is key to understanding risks." For flight safety, according to his research findings, a pilot must have not just initial but advanced experience and a solid awareness of flight safety, as documented by Ateş in 2022. Other reviews also make it clear that mobile technology is an absolute necessity for overcoming the human factor in aviation systems and that such technologies are critical for improving flight safety and overcoming human factors, as documented by Macit et al. in 2025.</p><p>Still, it is not easy to reap these benefits of safer operating conditions. According to AL-Dosari, Hunaiti, and Balachandran (2024), it is the need of “well-designed</p><p>drone systems” to ensure the maximal benefits of drones with respect to safety and security considerations. Along with designing, the term “cognitive UAVs” has received increased attention in this regard. According to Dehghan and Khosravian (2024), it is crucial to ensure improved situational awareness with the help of cognitive systems based upon artificial intelligence, with the aim of decreasing human error during drones’ operations and maximizing safety at the operative level.</p><p>This section examines the development of safety focused scientific studies in the field of UAVs from a conceptual and bibliometric perspective. First, the operational, technological, and regulatory dimensions of UAVs and their safety requirements are addressed, followed by a presentation of the findings of a bibliometric analysis conducted to highlight trends in the literature. The study proposes a checklist of pre-flight, in-flight, and post -flight safety considerations and summarizes current approaches to UAVs and safety.</p>