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GA-ASI Successfully Tests Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-Based Surveillance System on Guardian

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-based surveillance system that provides pilots with enhanced situational awareness and supports GA-ASI’s overall airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator B. The purpose of the test was to demonstrate that the Predator/Gray

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Boeing Non-kinetic Missile Records 1st Operational Test Flight

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., successfully tested the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) during a flight over the Utah Test and Training Range that was monitored from Hill Air Force Base. CHAMP, which renders

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European UAS Sense-and-Avoid System to Begin Trial Flights by Year-End

First test flights are imminent for a European effort to develop an automated sense-and-avoid mid-air collision avoidance system that would help overcome safety concerns preventing use of unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace. The so-called MIDCAS system, being ground tested at Selex Galileo's unmanned systems laboratory in Ronchi dei

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R3 Engineering (R3E) Performs First Autonomous UAS ADS-B Collision Avoidance Demo

R³ Engineering LLC (R³E) is claiming the first ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, executed by a sense and avoid system installed on an unmanned aircraft system. On Friday August 10th, 2012, an AWSAS™ (R³E’s All Weather Sense and Avoid System) installed

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Aerosonde sUAS Logs 168 Flight Hours in the Antarctic

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has announced today that its Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System logged 168 flight hours in the frigid, harsh climate of Antarctica, supporting meteorological research by the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Each

Reports & Publications

Motion Control Solutions for UAS and Battlefield Operations - White Paper

High-performance motion control systems are the workhorses that enable payloads to dependably execute their missions with pinpoint accuracy. Usually, a system designer comes up with the idea for the application first—UAS, security sensor, communications system, thermal surveillance, etc.—then almost always bumps into this question: “How do I move

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U.S. Army Research Lab Uses New ARL Thermoelectric Technology on Shadow Tactical UAS to Convert Heat into Energy

In one of its latest research projects, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is investigating thermoelectric properties of materials on the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System, and techniques that could convert heat into energy. The Shadow UAS, is used by the Army and Marine Corps for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition

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Sagetech, Arcturus Demonstrate Joint Manned, Unmanned Aircraft Operations Using COTS NextGen ADS-B Tracking

Sagetech Corporation and Arcturus UAV will demonstrate the use of the “NextGen” Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system to facilitate joint operations between unmanned and manned aircraft, by providing operators and pilots in-flight tracking of all participating aircraft. The event will be staged from McMillan Airfield in Camp Roberts, California, on

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Quadcopters Play Ball

This video shows three quadrocopters cooperatively tossing and catching a ball with the aid of an elastic net. To toss the ball, the quadrocopters accelerate rapidly outward to stretch the net tight between them and launch the ball up. Notice in the video that the quadrocopters are then pulled forcefully

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U.S. Army To Look At Creating a “Super Engine”

Studies are underway at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, to create a ‘super engine’ that could allow military ground vehicles, stationary power generators, and small unmanned aircraft, for example, to operate with the same kind of fuel. In the late 1980s, the DOD issued its “Single Fuel

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Composite Wing Developed for High-Altitude Perpetual Flight Unmanned Aircraft

Lehigh University (Lehigh, Pa., USA) reports that one of its engineers has developed a carbon fiber composite wing for use on an unmanned aircraft being designed for high-altitude perpetual flight. The first uniquely designed carbon fiber wing has emerged from Lehigh's Composites Lab. The 6.5m/21.3-ft

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Indonesia Develops UAS to Monitor Border Regions

A small green aircraft flew in the blue sky over the Halim Perdanakusuma airbase in East Jakarta on Thursday morning. “The plane is designed to carry out surveillance. Given its noise levels, however, its targets would easily become aware of its position,” Research and Technology Minister Gusti M. Hatta said