Testing
Using real-time video imagery distributed from Northrop Grumman Corporation's on-demand intelligence system, Marines successfully completed live-fire targeting exercises on the Marine Corps' extensive ranges Twentynine Palms, California. For the first time, warfighters used the Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) system to simultaneously and autonomously manage two unmanned
Testing
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that its Centaur optionally-piloted aircraft has successfully completed its first fully automatic landings. The tests were conducted at Warrenton, Virginia. Aurora designed Centaur to fly as a normal manned aircraft, as an unmanned aircraft or in a “hybrid manned/unmanned” mode in which control may be
Testing
Four American companies will demonstrate concepts for an unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft to the U.S. Navy. Study contracts worth about $500,000 each were awarded late June to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI, which offers the Sea Avenger version of the jet-powered Predator C); Lockheed
Lighter Than Air
World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that it has completed additional testing of its Argus One UAV in Easton, Maryland in preparation for the airship’s flight testing and demonstration at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona. The recent series of Argus One flight testing
Commercial
On a two-day trip to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska earlier this month, researchers from Poker Flat Research Range evaluated the performance of a new unmanned aircraft system that will be used to monitor Steller sea lions. The National Marine Mammal Laboratory conducts annual aerial surveys of Steller sea lions
Research
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
Lighter Than Air
Aerostat blimps and Shadow Unmanned Aircraft Systems configured with Joint Tactical Radio Systems, or JTRS, have been flying above the desert terrain at White Sands Missile Range, N.M, during the Army's Network Integration Evaluation. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems are being used to extend a mobile, ad-hoc line-of-sight
Testing
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
Payloads
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the newest RQ-4 Global Hawk completed the first of many production acceptance flights of an operational Block 30 multi-intelligence sensor package on May 25, flown from Palmdale, California. The Global Hawk flight marks a new era of increased operational intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability
Testing
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.
Testing
The Navy and Marine Corps plans to field a cargo unmanned aircraft system are moving forward as the first of two potential UAS helicopters landed at Pax River, July 1. The Navy and Marine Corps Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Air Systems programme office (PMA-266) coordinated the arrival of Lockheed Martin’s
Testing
Kansas University’s school of Aerospace Engineering (KUAE) has used MTM®45-1 prepreg from Advanced Composites Group (ACG) to build a fleet of Meridian UAS designed to monitor the flow of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. KUAE selected ACGs MTM45-1 for the Meridians wings, empennage and fuselage structure because