The United States Air Force has been working on miniature remote controlled drones that resemble a flying insect. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Spanish Students Build Unmanned Solar Aircraft
A team of seven students from the Terrassa School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering (ETSEIAT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have developed the technology for flying the Solar Endeavour UPC, Spain’s first photovoltaic-powered plane built by students. Continue reading
Airborne Avalanche Rescue System
The project for an Airborne Avalanche Rescue System by designer Tatjana Rolle aims to decrease crucial emergency rescue times after avalanches by utilizing autonomous airborne drones to detect and mark the position of victims.
DARPA Enlists Hackers to Prevent Cyber Attacks
Darpa’s Kathleen Fisher told the agency’s first-ever Cyber Colloqium, a gathering that seeks to enlist hackers’ ideas, that the usual picture of cyberattacks involves hackers — maybe sponsored by a government — trying to penetrate a data network, is too narrow a conception. Continue reading
New Mexico State University Psychology Professor Researches Guidelines for UAS Pilots
A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. Continue reading
Solar Panels Power Glider Controls for Indefinite Flight
Marine Corps Captains Derek Snyder and Dino Cooper, who recently graduated from the Systems Engineering course at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, have designed an unmanned aircraft that is effectively a glider that can fly indefinitely. Continue reading
DARPA UAVForge Competition – Contestant Number 7
This the entry from icarusLabs, a team of 10 MIT engineers with specialities in aerospace, control systems and artificial intelligence. Continue reading
Japan’s Unmanned Flying Ball – Official Launch
We first came across the ‘Unmanned Flying Ball from Japan” earlier this year in June. Now the Japanese Ministry of Defence Research Department has made an official launch at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo last week. Continue reading