Queensland University of Technology Ph.D. student Wesam Al Sabban has designed an unmanned aircraft that would be powered by the sun and wind. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Australian Research Mimics Visual Navigation of Insects
Research presented to this month’s Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation in Melbourne by Richard Moore of The Vision Centre and the University of Queensland shows that small UAS can use insect-like visual navigation for navigation. Continue reading
NASA Prepares Airborne Study of Earth’s Radiation Balance
NASA's Global Hawk over Edwards Air Force Base - Photo: NASA / Carla Thomas
NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause layer of the atmosphere. Continue reading
DARPA Wants to Work with Smartphone App Developers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off an initiative to develop advanced applications capable of coordinating various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) programmes. Continue reading
Flight Assembled Architecture
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the FRAC Cultural Centre in Orléans, France has commissioned a 3 month exhibition entitled “Flight Assembled Architecture”. Continue reading
Imperfect Graphene Sensors Have Enhanced Sensitivity
Researchers at the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that although graphene makes very good chemical sensors, there was an unexpected “twist”— the sensors are better when the graphene is “worse”—more imperfections improved performance. Continue reading
US Air Force Wants Gunfire Detection System for UAS
The US Air Force has asked industry to develop a new heat and motion sensor capable of detecting enemy gunfire from 25,000 feet over the battlefield — and then swiftly directing a bomb or missile onto the shooter. Continue reading
California State University, Fresno Develops UAS with Edwards Air Force Base Support
In conjunction with the Edwards Air Force Base, a collaborative team from Fresno State’s engineering department has been working on an aerial laser-targeting UAV project, for the past three years. Continue reading