An engineer at Naval Air Station Patuxent River is leading an initiative that will save the Navy’s MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System programme several hundred thousand dollars. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Google Invests in Clean Energy UAS
Google just bought one of the most promising airborne systems in development—it’s not for surveillance, it’s not for the military, and it’s not for hobbyists. It’s for making clean energy. It’s essentially a giant, autonomous wind turbine that takes to the sky like a mechanical kite. And it may be integral to the future of wind power. Continue reading
Government of Canada Funds Development of Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence
The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, has announced that Aéroport d’Alma has been granted financial assistance to build the infrastructure needed to group all of the activities of the Unmanned Aerial System Center of Excellence under one roof. Continue reading
Canadian Professor Gets C$345K Research Grant to Predict Forest Fires
Dr. Abdelhamid Tayebi, an electrical engineering professor at Lakehead University just received a $225,000 Individual Operating Grant to look at ways to fly unmanned aircraft into dangerous places to perform a specific task. Continue reading
Robotic Insects Make First Controlled Flight
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air. Continue reading
Insect-Eye Camera Offers Wide-Angle Vision for Nano UAS
New “insect eye” cameras could someday help small UAS to see into every corner of a battlefield or give tiny medical scopes an all-around view inside the human body. A team of researchers from the United States has constructed such a camera, which offers an almost 180-degree field of view using hundreds of tiny lenses. Continue reading
Four Decades of UAS Research at NASA Dryden – Video
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center recently posted this video celebrating its heritage of developmental and operational experience with unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Promotes Civil MALE UAS Development
The South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is making progress in integrating national research and testing efforts aimed at putting technologies in place for a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial system through the Civil Commercial Unmanned Aerial System (CCUAS) project. Continue reading