The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa and the University of Blida in Algeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a Joint Centre of Excellence (JCoE) in aeronautics research. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Corpus Christi UAS to Fly on Multiple Axes
Researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi believe they are months away from launching a new type of unmanned aircraft capable of flying on multiple axes. Continue reading
Bird Brains May Help Drones Avoid Crashing
Researchers at Queensland University sent budgies down a tunnel, where they were met by an obstruction in the middle, with a choice to fly either to the left or to the right of it. What they found surprised them.
DARPA RFI to Create Airborne Aircraft Carriers
DARPA is interested in exploring the feasibility of small UAS airborne launch and recovery approaches for providing distributed airborne capabilities from existing air platforms. The agency envisions a large aircraft that, with minimal modification, could launch and recover multiple small unmanned systems from a standoff distance. Continue reading
Imperial College London to Get Aerial Robotics Lab
A new £1.25 million arena for flying the next generation of aerial robots will be constructed at Imperial College London, thanks to a donation. Continue reading
Neuromorphic Chips to Control UAS
There isn’t much space between your ears, but what’s in there can do many things that a computer of the same size never could. Your brain is also vastly more energy efficient at interpreting the world visually or understanding speech than any computer system. Continue reading
Researcher Studies Humpback Whale Health by UAS
An Australian researcher is using inexpensive drones to discover why the health of whales, off the coast of Australia, is deteriorating. Griffith University researcher Dr Jan-Olaf Meynecke told Mashable collecting bacteria, and at a later stage, DNA from viruses, will help to establish a baseline understanding of respiratory infections in the humpback whales. Continue reading
World’s First QuadCopter
In 1927 George de Bothezat told Popular Science that helicopters were “exactly where the airplane stood after the first few flights of the Wright Brothers.” What he means is that helicopters had, indeed, flown. Bothezat himself had built one that lifted off the ground while carrying the weight of four people. They just hadn’t flown well. Continue reading