A study by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has used small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) to reproduce the flight paths of birds of prey and get environmental information of their hunting areas. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
DARPA Programmable Matter Project Yields Tiny Reconfigurable Robots at MIT
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The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable. Continue reading
Carnegie Mellon Unvivesity and Robotics Institute Develop Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance for Micro Aerial Vehicles
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The Robotics Laboratory (LAIRLab) at Carnegie Mellon Unvivesity and the Robotics Instutute teamed to work on the “Probably-Stable Vision-Based Control of High-Speed Flight through Forests and Urban Environments” project, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Continue reading
NASA’s Global Hawk Air Pollution Missions in January 2013
NASA is inviting social media followers for a behind-the-scenes look at several airborne Earth science missions during an event January 25 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Continue reading
Stanford Engineers Invent All-Carbon Solar Cell
In a major first, researchers at Stanford University have built a prototype of an all-carbon solar cell, including carbon nanotubes. Continue reading
FAA Grants COA to Georgia Center of Innovation for Aerospace
The Federal Aviation Administration has given the go-ahead for unmanned aircraft to begin more test flights over Central Georgia. Continue reading
Planes without Pilots – Designing UAS Devices: Jamey Jacob at TEDxOStateU
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Oklahoma State University Professor Jamey Jacob is part of the university’s UAS team that designs and develops innovative unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter Launch Huntsville-Based Integration and Collaboration Laboratories
Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter, Textron Inc. companies, announced the opening of the Textron Systems Integration and Collaboration Lab and Bell Helicopter/AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Manned/Unmanned Operations (MUMO) Capability Development Lab. Continue reading