Research
The Hyperion project at the University of Colorado is to conceive, design, integrate, and operate a 3 meter wingspan and 1.25 meter max chord flying wing airframe with a parallel hybrid propulsion system. It will be showcased at the Aerospace Engineering Department’s Design Symposium on April 15. The
Propulsion
Newcastle University engineers in the UK will help QinetiQ build a monster, record-breaking solar-powered plane under a project jointly funded by Boeing and the US Government. The unmanned SolarEagle aircraft fitted with solar panels will be able to stay in the air at an altitude of more than 18km for
Research
The Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA is organising its second annual Industry Symposium to present its aerospace engineering design projects. The Aerospace Engineering Design Symposium will be held on Friday, April 15, 2011 in the Discovery Learning Center at the University. In
Research
Middle Tennessee State University and the ISR Group, based in Savannah, Tennessee, have signed a multi-year collaborative agreement to develop a new Unmanned Aircraft System programme in the south-eastern United States. The agreement ties MTSU's nationally ranked Department of Aerospace with ISR Group's industry-leading UAS experts,
Testing
University of Arizona aerospace and mechanical engineers are studying bird and bee flight to develop unmanned aircraft that stay aloft longer and cope with sudden and severe changes in airflow. The College of Engineering's Hybrid Dynamics and Control Laboratory is developing mathematical analysis and design methods that could
Data Links & Communications
A new white paper released by Z Microsystems, a leading provider of mission-ready computing systems, provides an in-depth analysis of how ruggedized servers are being redesigned by Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) suppliers to meet these demands. Military operations are being inundated with data from an expanding network of sources, including sensor data
Control Stations
A research team headed by Dr. Eugenio Culurciello, associate professor of engineering at Yale University, has developed a field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor that has been specifically designed for artificial vision. It operates about 100 times faster than a laptop computer, effectively bringing supercomputing power to synthetic vision. A
Research
Scientists at The University of Glasgow and EADS Innovation Works (EADS IW) are working on using nanotechnology to improve the efficiency of the Hydrisafe tank developed by Hydrogen Horizons Ltd, a small start-up company, to store hydrogen in a solid state. By modifying the composition and microstructure of the tank
Research
The Linnaeus Centre for Control, Autonomy, and Decision-making in Complex Systems (CADICS) at Linköping University is undertaking a research project on Collaborative Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The centre is funded by the Swedish Research Council. Collaborative Unmanned Aircraft Systems The practical use and acceptance of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) is dependent
Research
Xiamen Milestone Group has become the first enterprise in Fujian to design and make a successful trial flight of an unmanned aircraft. The trial flight was carried out on Jan 4th, 2011 and the company plans to market the aircraft in May this year. As a national key high-tech enterprise
Research
A paper proposing a hybrid energy storage system to solve the energy issues of long endurance UAS, presented at the IECON 2010 - the 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, has just been published at the IEEE Digital Library. It is available online to members and subscribers. The