Nothing very original about team Dhaksha’s Hexarotor entry from MIT ANNA University in India, though it does have the merit of being stable. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Texas A&M University Gets NSF Grant for UAS Search & Rescue Control Research
Researchers and responders from The Texas A&M University System have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a visual “common ground” between operators and responders who use micro and small unmanned aircraft for search and rescue. Continue reading
Sense-and-Avoid Tech Firms Move to University of Dayton
The University of Dayton has announced that locally-based companies Optonicus and Defense Engineering Corp., as well as California-based UtopiaCompression, have signed deals to relocate to UD’s Ladar and Optical Communications Institute. Continue reading
DARPA UAV Forge Challenge – Contestant Number 4
Last in the current the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Pogo 2100UAV. Continue reading
NASA Develops ACAT Auto-GCAS Smart Phone App
DROID with F-16D - Photo: NASA / Tony Landis
A small hobby-type radio-controlled model aircraft is being transformed into a high-tech flight research aircraft at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and will be used to develop such a ’sense-and-avoid’ application for smart phones. Continue reading
DARPA UAV Forge Challenge – Contestant Number 3
Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone. Continue reading
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
An enterprising young computer engineer, Jonas Pfeil, who recently graduated with an M.Sc. from the Technical University of Berlin, will present his ‘Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera‘ as the Emerging Technologies demonstration at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. Continue reading
Thales Alenia Space to Study UAS Command and Control By Satellite for ESA
Thales Alenia Space has won a contract from the European Space Agency to lead a nine-month study regarding satellite communications solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Continue reading