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U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $3.3 million in research, education and training grants to universities that comprise FAA’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE).
The EDIDP programme (European Defence Industrial Development Programme) has been designed in order to reinforce the European Union’s strategic autonomy in Defence. Novadem has integrated a consortium of 10 others French, Belgian, and Cypriot companies and institutions. Together they will collaborate on a project called LynkEUs. Continue reading
To fly autonomously, drones need to understand what they perceive in the environment and make decisions based on that information. A novel method developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers allows drones to learn perception and action separately. Continue reading
A ground-breaking new project announced on July 30 will build and then demonstrate how Open-Access UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) capability can support drone operations below 400ft in the UK. Continue reading
Woolpert has been contracted to research and develop airfield design guidelines for large unmanned aircraft systems for the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The ACRP is managed by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Continue reading
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle
To better understand the behavior of multiple sea turtle species along Florida’s Space Coast, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has teamed up with aviation leader Northrop Grumman and the Brevard Zoo to launch a drone-based surveillance effort. Continue reading
A drone with flapping wings that can make quick turns like a bird could one day be used to monitor crowds as well as crops in fields. Continue reading
Engineers at Caltech have designed a new data-driven method to control the movement of multiple robots through cluttered, unmapped spaces, so they do not run into one another. Continue reading