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Unmanned aerial vehicles flying at supersonic speed will be launched this summer at CFB Suffield, says Atlantis Research Laboratories’ Avro Division in Medicine Hat. The Avro Mark X, with the appearance of a sleek jet, is 22 feet long, weighs a thousand pounds and can carry a load of 500 kilograms. Continue reading
Black Swift Technologies(BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, announced that its advanced aerial research platform, the Black Swift S2 UAS, will be deployed in the coming months by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR),part of the University of Colorado Boulder, to conduct high-altitude high-latitude atmospheric research studies in Greenland. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is part of the larger international East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) Continue reading
L-R: Brandon Baumbach, EDC business development manager, Keith Lund, EDC president and CEO, Joshua Riedy, and TechSpark North Dakota manager Taya Spelhaug
Microsoft Corp. and the University of North Dakota (UND) Aerospace Foundation have announced that Microsoft has granted $100,000 in project funding that will drive investment and boost North Dakota’s ambitions to be the epicenter of U.S. drone innovation and entrepreneurism. Continue reading
A Purdue University researcher has been awarded a patent for a solution for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly in high-wind conditions, provide energy savings, and handle a larger payload. Assistant professor Dr. Xiumin Diao’s design got inspiration from the insect kingdom. Continue reading
This thermal image shows the cattle below in the feedlot in Bushland, Texas, just west of Amarillo
At a research feedlot just west of the Texas Panhandle city of Amarillo, researchers are in the early stages of exploring how heat signatures from cattle might correlate with other data to speed detection of stress or disease. The idea stemmed from thermography used in veterinary practices diagnosing lameness in horses. Continue reading
In a newly published paper “Real-Time Dense Stereo Embedded in A UAV for Road Inspection“), scientists describe AI that can be embedded in a quadcopter for road inspection. Continue reading
DARPA is soliciting creative proposals for the fourth swarm sprint in its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET)program. OFFSET envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems providing critical capabilities to ground units in urban areas where challenges such as tall buildings, tight spaces, and limited sight lines constrain essential communications, sensing, maneuverability, and autonomous operations. Continue reading
Collins Aerospace Systems executives revealed plans for The Grid—the industry’s most advanced electric power systems lab. Collins Aerospace will use the high-power, high-voltage lab to design and test systems like high-power generators for the next generation of more electric aircraft, including commercial, military, business aviation, UAV and urban air mobility platforms. Collins Aerospace is a unit of United Technologies Corp. Continue reading