Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated that its Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) system increases warfighter situational awareness during a recent Spiral 7 DARPA field exercise conducted March 7-18, 2011, at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Phantom Eye Being Assembled at NASA Dryden
Phantom Eye being assembled at NASA Dryden, minus engines. The engines are undergoing testing at another facility. First flight is expected in early August, said Boeing.
Urban Aeronautics AirMule Resumes Flight Tests
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics announced that its AirMule prototype has recently resumed its flight testing after a systems and structural upgrade that lasted 4 months.
Robonic Demonstrates High Speed Launch
Robonic Ltd Oy has successfully demonstrated the high speed launch of representative unmanned air systems in the 100 kg range at speeds of 70 meters per second.
Turkish Aerospace Industries – Anka Test Flight Video
Quadrotor Formation Flying at Penn University GRASP Lab
The University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, has been working on getting groups of the robots to fly together in formation. Just like with a formation of fighter jets, there’s a leader robot in each squad along with several follower robots. The followers have just two jobs: follow the leader, and preserve the shape of the formation.
China Test Flies Mid-Sized Unmanned Helicopter
The V750, China’s largest unmanned helicopter, had its first successful flight on May, 7, marking China’s first entry into the field of mid-sized unmanned helicopters.
Yale Grab Labs Develops Stable Gripping Device for Unmanned Helicopters
The clever chaps at Yale University Grab Labs have developed a robot helicopter integrated with a compliant gripper, able to directly grasp and transport objects while hovering in mid-air outdoors, without need for external motion sensors.