Engineers at Johns Hopkins University are pointing their high-speed video cameras at the wings of butterflies to help design the next generation of flying robots. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Northwest to Manufacture UAVForge Winner
Northwest UAV Propulsion Systems announced that it has been awarded a contract under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) UAVForge programme to manufacture 15 units of the winning design. Continue reading
University Of Colorado Boulder Uses UAS to Assess Decline Of Arctic Sea Ice in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea
CU-Boulder Research Professor James Maslanik, left, CU-Boulder graduate student Ian Crocker, centre, and NOAA researcher John Adler, right - Photo : University of Colorado
A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with the continuing decline of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
MIT Scientist Study Birds to Discover Maximum Theoretical UAS Speeds
The northern goshawk zips through a forest at high speeds, constantly adjusting its flight path to keep from colliding with trees and other obstacles. Continue reading
DARPA Awards 3rd Contract to Develop Low-Power, Non-Acoustic Anti-Submarine Warfare Technologies for UAS
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, have awarded their third industry contract for a programme that seeks to develop technologies to help detect enemy submarines in shallow coastal waters and harbours without using traditional acoustic submarine-hunting technologies like sonar. Continue reading
Boston University Studies Swarming in Bats
A research team at Boston University designed a “Batcopter” to study how bats manage to fly together but never collide. They’re testing it in the desert of southern Texas, where thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats swarm from their caves to feed each night. Continue reading
Queensland University 3 Year Research Programme to Help Safer Emergency Landings
Queensland University of Technology aviation researchers are developing an information system to help unmanned aircraft make safer emergency landings and better enable their wider commercial use. Continue reading
AVIATR – Unmanned Aircraft Mission for Titan
Artist's impression - Credit: Mike Malaska
Dr. Jason W. Barnes of the University of Idaho and a team of 30 scientists and engineers created an unmanned mission concept to explore Titan called AVIATR (Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance). Continue reading