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A team of seven students from the Terrassa School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering (ETSEIAT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have developed the technology for flying the Solar Endeavour UPC, Spain's first photovoltaic-powered plane built by students. The project's main goal was to
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The project for an Airborne Avalanche Rescue System by designer Tatjana Rolle aims to decrease crucial emergency rescue times after avalanches by utilizing autonomous airborne drones to detect and mark the position of victims. Immediately following the avalanche, the activated drone leaves its solar charging station, scouts the area and
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Darpa’s Kathleen Fisher told the agency’s first-ever Cyber Colloqium, a gathering that seeks to enlist hackers’ ideas, that the usual picture of cyberattacks involves hackers — maybe sponsored by a government — trying to penetrate a data network, is too narrow a conception. Cybersecurity, as interpreted by the Pentagon’s
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A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.These guidelines will establish methods so that unmanned aircraft systems can be used safely in personal, commercial and academic situations.
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Marine Corps Captains Derek Snyder and Dino Cooper, who recently graduated from the Systems Engineering course at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, have designed an unmanned aircraft that is effectively a glider that can fly indefinitely. The planned aircraft was developed as thesis projects by Snyder and Cooper. It is
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This the entry from icarusLabs, a team of 10 MIT engineers with specialities in aerospace, control systems and artificial intelligence. Called Stingray, it is a hybrid aircraft with VTOL cpabilities. It has a weight of 9.9 lbs (4.5 kg), a wingspan of 72 inches (1.83 m), an
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We first came across the ‘Unmanned Flying Ball from Japan” earlier this year in June. Now the Japanese Ministry of Defence Research Department has made an official launch at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo last week. Fumiyuki Sato, Technical Official at TRDI, Ministry of Defence presented the machine to
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Aurora Flight Sciences has been assigned a patent for a "system and method for the retrieval of a smaller unmanned aerial vehicle by a larger unmanned aerial vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method
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Circino Flight Systems submitted a 3-year old video of its ‘Sentry’ Olecopter which tries to satisfy a number of problems with UAV's - combine VTOL performance with high speed in forward flight.A scaled down version (7 feet) of the airframe has been made, has been ground tested
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There is growing interest in a US aviation force that could carry out precision surveillance and strike missions thousands of miles away. That capability would be particularly useful in the Pacific Rim where US bases are sited far from several hot spots. Connecting the airborne platforms—and the extremely important
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Nothing very original about team Dhaksha's Hexarotor entry from MIT ANNA University in India, though it does have the merit of being stable. DARPA's UAVForge Competition has moved from the "idea" stage to the "concept" stage of Phase 1, with the official
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Researchers and responders from The Texas A&M University System have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a visual “common ground” between operators and responders who use micro and small unmanned aircraft for search and rescue. Following principles in how people know what other