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The Peregrine project was started in 2020 to build a smaller and more affordable system than those attempted previously, now made possible by advances in fixed-wing UAVs and miniaturized electronics. We knew we couldn’t do the IPR with off-the-shelf systems. We had to start with a blank slate to
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The team’s project has reached the finals of the global XPRIZE Rainforest competition which encourages the development of technology to measure and monitor the rainforest ecosystem. A group of researchers from the ETH Zurich are in the running for the global XPRIZE Rainforest competition with their project employing custom-built
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Swedish researchers funded by the University of Gävle have just published a paper in which they conduct systems analyses to assess the environmental, economic, and delivery time impact of large drones for delivery scenarios to pick-up centers between mid-size cities predominantly in rural areas, and deliveries within city limits compared
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Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between drones and airplanes — without depending solely on pilot sightings. In a peer-reviewed study published by the Society of Automotive Engineers in the “SAE International Journal of Aerospace,” researchers looked at more than 1.8 million
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Dr Arunkumar M Sampath, a Principal Consultant in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Chennai, recently published a study into the implications of the increase in the production and operation of eVTOL aircraft and UAVs within populated civilian areas at relatively low altitudes which creates noise annoyance issues that impact human
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Instead of one autonomous robot to fly, another to drive on land and one more to navigate on water, a new hybrid drone can do all three. To carry out complex missions, scientists are increasingly experimenting with drones that can do more than just fly. The idea for a drone
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There are currently 415,000 drones in Germany. With around 360,000 drones, most are used privately. However, this proportion has been declining for several years. In contrast, the use of drones in the commercial sector has almost tripled since 2019 and increased by 197 percent to around 56,000
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A team of European researchers has established a new principle that explains how flying insects determine the direction of gravity, without using accelerometers. These results are an important step towards the creation of tiny autonomous drones. For proper operation, drones usually use accelerometers to determine the direction of gravity. In
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Researchers at Cornell University have just published a paper which examined the performance of 5G-connected low-altitude drone communication. They found that the already deployed mid-band 5G is a promising candidate for aerial communication, even without any change in the network setting. They now plan to investigate the mmWave 5G performance
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The Planning Office of the German Armed Forces has awarded Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Quantum-Systems GmbH and Spleenlab GmbH with a research endeavour to demonstrate and analyze the AI building blocks required for swarms of tactical UAS in a real-world scenario. The project, titled KITU 2 (Künstliche Intelligenz für
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Researchers from Empa and Imperial College London are developing a heat-resistant drone that can analyze the source of danger at close range in the event of a building or forest fire. This allows firefighters to optimize the strategy of a high-risk operation before entering the danger zone. Where others rush
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The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia’s Casey Station, 3,880 km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge verdant and green. Sadly, the health of these moss beds is declining due to changing climate conditions, ozone depletion and heatwaves.