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Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone. The Microdrone is a kamikaze drone equipped with miniguns, an infrared laser beam, and Xbox Kinect-
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Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Falcon. The Falcon is a camo-printed, modular three-part aircraft equipped with a super-camera that moves
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The ICAUV 2012 Conference & Exhibition taking place at the Eagleton Golf Resort in Banaglore, India is the only event totally dedicated to UAS in India that is totally supported by the Indian Ministry of Defence, Defence Research & Development Organization, Aeronautical Development Establishment. The following documents pertaining to ICAUV
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The second edition of International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems (ICAUV 2012) is totally dedicated to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and it aims to bring the Indian and international UAS communities together. The following points have motivated its organisation: * India has recognized the force multiplying possibilities that UAS offer and
VTOL
SKIVE Aviation was on hand to film the flight demonstrations at the recent international UAV-g 2011 Conference organised by ETH Zurich at Birrfeld Airfield in Switzerland. The company has spent a lot of time and effort in optimising their system and has introduced a new development of roll stabilization,
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R-Pod-1 - School of Business and Engineering Vaud - First Prize The UAV-g 2011 Conference was a gathering at ETH Zurich and at Birrfeld Airfield of 220 scientists, users, delegates of government authorities and manufacturers coming from over 30 different countries. At the conference the current research on UAS
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Nick Miller, Thales Business Director for ISTAR and Unmanned Aircraft, presents the Watchkeeper's capabilities and production schedule. The interview was filmed recently at the DSEi 2011 in England Source: Flight Global
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With a new name and broader focus, the Dayton region's premiere aerospace technology conference and trade show is gearing up for its 2011 event at the Dayton Convention Center.TechNet-Aero is the new name for the annual conference produced by the Dayton-Wright Chapter of the Armed
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Iran recently mounted the Div-e-Sepid competition, in which competitors from up to 65 teams square off by racing their homemade unmanned aircraft around Mount Damavand, Iran’s highest mountain peak. The UAS, equipped with small cameras, fly over patches of land and sea looking to see who can
VTOL
More VTOL UAS are on display at the Aviation Expo China 2011 trade show in Beijing. Chinese companies and institutions are developing a range of helicopter unmanned air vehicles for military and civilian applications. One of the systems, the Sunward Tech SUV200, has a 200kg (441lb) payload capacity, and was
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This year competition includes not only unmanned air vehicles but unmanned ground vehicles as well. The format of the competition will build on the success of the UAV competitions held in 2007, 2009 and 2011 and will keep expanding through the involvement of UGVs. There are two competitions running together
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The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference (IMAV 2011) which was held in the Netherlands last week, also featured a series of indoor and outdoor competitions. Winner of the KLPD user trophy (Best operational MAV) was the Akaflieg Team from the Academic flight club Bremen, Germany. Full results are available here.