The SEED is an autonomous, mobile camera balloon created to take photos and video of you while you’re on vacation. This design project was created by Moonhwan Lee, Nakamura Shohei & YoungWook Jung.
Category Archives: Research
Algorithm Allows Sensors to Geo-Localize
Photo Taken Using SLAM Algorithm during Tests at the Great Plains Joint Training Center’s Crisis City
Kansas State University’s Dale Schinstock has developed and continues to refine an algorithm that allows sensors on an unmanned aircraft to build a map of the environment and determine its location in that map.
AAI Enters 5 Year Research Agreement with US Army
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, announced yesterday that it has entered into a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC).
Indian Student Project Uses Playstation Joystick
Four final year students of electronic engineering at Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering have come up with a project using a Playstation joystick on an unmanned aircraft for tracking purposes.
Pigeon’s Eye View Inspires Next Generation Auto-Piloted Aircraft
A recent study on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests has opened a new avenue for developments in robotics and auto-pilots. Continue reading
Back Inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome with Kinect
This video was taken inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome in Zurich, aka the Flying Machine Arena at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, part of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich).
DARPA Gives General Atomics Aeronautical Systems $40M to Develop Laser Weapon
The Defense Department has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GASS) in Poway $39.8 million for continuing development of the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), a high-energy weapon that will eventually be incorporated into tactical aircraft and unmanned aircraft.
US Research Team Microaviary Flight Lab
Microdrone at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.