The Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory is just one team of more than 130 working with NASA to solve how to manage drone traffic. The traffic-management system, which will be under development for the next few years, will help drones communicate with each other and avoid potential collisions. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Evolutionary View Planning for Optimized UAV Terrain Modeling
A team of researchers at the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology, Brigham Young University have just published a paper that addresses the deficiencies in data collected by UAV missions flown using manual pilot control. These are heavily dependent on the skill and judgment of the operator or the weather conditions that make precision flying more difficult.This can often lead to gaps between the collected images or areas where insufficient images are captured for 3D reconstruction. Continue reading
Spanish Research Project to Help UAS Land on Ships
The Spanish Ministry of Defence has engaged ship numerical modelling specialist Siport21 to develop systems that will predict vessel movements in advance so that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can land on them safely. Continue reading
Twitter Gets Drone Patent
Twitter was granted a patent last week for an unmanned aerial vehicle which can be controlled by users and take pictures and videos.
PrecisionHawk Partners with Indiana State University
PrecisionHawk and Indiana State University have signed a research and development partnership that aims to advance the unmanned aerial systems industry from multidisciplinary perspectives. The university-business collaboration will focus on safety, education, training and algorithm development for PrecisionHawk’s DataMapper aerial data software. Continue reading
Stanford Software Predicts and Prevents Collisions
The Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL) is part of a broad partnership led by NASA Ames to create an unmanned aerial system traffic management system, or UTM, to manage the expected surge in unmanned flights. “UTM is meant to fulfill a lot of the functions of air traffic control, but it will be in the cloud and largely automated,” said SISL Director Mykel Kochenderfer, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics. Continue reading
UAV in Texas Piloted 13,000 Miles Away in Sydney
Students from the University of Sydney and Texas A&M University have become the first people to remotely fly and safely land a quadcopter in another country, as well as setting a new world record for the longest distance successfully reached for a non-military remote controlled drone flight.
UAS uses NVIDIA Artificial Intelligence to Recognise Objects
Kespry, a developer of unmanned aerial systems for commercial applications, has announced that it has demonstrated a prototype drone that uses NVIDIA artificial intelligence technology to recognise objects. Continue reading