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The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Initiative at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certification Authorization to fly RS-16 unmanned aircraft into National Air Space. The air space, which encompasses approximately 500 square miles, is unprecedented in size and versatility. The authorized area reaches several
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Numerica Corporation, a research and development company working in the area of information science, was awarded a two-year, $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop collision prediction capabilities for Unmanned Aircraft Systems operating in the National Airspace System. The
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The SEED is an autonomous, mobile camera balloon created to take photos and video of you while you’re on vacation. This design project was created by Moonhwan Lee, Nakamura Shohei & YoungWook Jung. It would also keep track of the weather and other data so that you can remember
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Kansas State University’s Dale Schinstock has developed and continues to refine an algorithm that allows sensors on an unmanned aircraft to build a map of the environment and determine its location in that map. The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping algorithm is based on a single camera and relies on
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AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, announced yesterday that it has entered into a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC). The CRADA enables AAI UAS and CERDEC to work together on various payloads for
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Four final year students of electronic engineering at Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering have come up with a project using a Playstation joystick on an unmanned aircraft for tracking purposes. Praveen Sampath, Swapnil Aglawe, Ritesh Chaudhari and Aditya Patil built the aeroplane for their project titled ‘Surveillance System for Mobile
Electronic Systems
A recent study on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests has opened a new avenue for developments in robotics and auto-pilots. Researchers from Harvard University conducted an experiment wherein, they trained pigeons to fly through an artificial forest with a tiny camera attached to their
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This video was taken inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome in Zurich, aka the Flying Machine Arena at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, part of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich). “We are looking for ways to make interaction with our vehicles natural and intuitive.
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The Defense Department has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GASS) in Poway $39.8 million for continuing development of the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), a high-energy weapon that will eventually be incorporated into tactical aircraft and unmanned aircraft. The work will be done on behalf of
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At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the
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An $11.4 million collaborative research project led by the University of North Dakota on unmanned aircraft called the Limited Deployment of Cooperative Aircraft Project could assist North Dakota in becoming a future national test site for unmanned aircraft, UND officials said. The project proposal, drafted by research and unmanned
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Georgia Tech Research Institute officials were gathered on May 12-13 for another examination of a foreign-made unmanned aircraft system built with off-the-shelf commercial parts. The demonstration was designed to simulate a growing UAS threat to U.S. forces, test its capabilities for accuracy and validate the system so it can