World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that it has completed additional testing of its Argus One UAV in Easton, Maryland in preparation for the airship’s flight testing and demonstration at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona.
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Alaska University Tests UAS for Wildlife Observation
On a two-day trip to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska earlier this month, researchers from Poker Flat Research Range evaluated the performance of a new unmanned aircraft system that will be used to monitor Steller sea lions.
Algorithm Allows Sensors to Geo-Localize
Photo Taken Using SLAM Algorithm during Tests at the Great Plains Joint Training Center’s Crisis City
Kansas State University’s Dale Schinstock has developed and continues to refine an algorithm that allows sensors on an unmanned aircraft to build a map of the environment and determine its location in that map.
Aerostat and Shadow Test Joint Tactical Radio Systems
Persistent Surveillance System at Camp Julien, Afghanistan
Aerostat blimps and Shadow Unmanned Aircraft Systems configured with Joint Tactical Radio Systems, or JTRS, have been flying above the desert terrain at White Sands Missile Range, N.M, during the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation. Continue reading
Indian Student Project Uses Playstation Joystick
Four final year students of electronic engineering at Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering have come up with a project using a Playstation joystick on an unmanned aircraft for tracking purposes.
Global Hawk Completes First Production Acceptance Multi-Intelligence Sensor Flight
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the newest RQ-4 Global Hawk completed the first of many production acceptance flights of an operational Block 30 multi-intelligence sensor package on May 25, flown from Palmdale, California.
Back Inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome with Kinect
This video was taken inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome in Zurich, aka the Flying Machine Arena at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, part of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich).
Lockheed Martin KMAX Begins Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Tests
The Navy and Marine Corps plans to field a cargo unmanned aircraft system are moving forward as the first of two potential UAS helicopters landed at Pax River, July 1.
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