VTOL
Recent experiments performed with a team of nano quadrocoptors developed by the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab and KMel Robotics have produced these impressive results. The team of researchers has worked out how to get them to fly together in intricate patterns, and even squeeze though tight spaces without hitting
Events
Northwest UAV Propulsion Systems announced that it has been awarded a contract under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) UAVForge programme to manufacture 15 units of the winning design. UAVForge is a DARPA and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) collaborative initiative to design, build
Commercial
The US Customs and Border Protection agency just posted this video showing its new Unmanned Aircraft Systems specifically designed to patrol over open water. It details the setting up of its Predator B aircraft, the logistical and contractual hurdles that had to be jumped and their cooperation and integration with
Testing
Marking significant advancement in its maritime surveillance programme, the U.S. Navy recently began test flights on a radar system destined for an unmanned aircraft. The Navy completed the first flight of the Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) radar system, the primary sensor on the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned
Testing
Marines witnessed the first flight of the service's newest small unmanned aircraft on January 22 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. As part of the RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) Early Operational Capability (EOC), personnel from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Commercial
The US Customs and Border Protection Agency is looking for a contractor that can help it evaluate the feasibility of using Unmanned Aircraft Systems to monitor the movement of possible human intruders into the United States along the U.S.-Mexican border. CBP’s office of air and marine currently
Testing
Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that the Swiss Department of Defence has become the first customer for the Centaur Optionally-Piloted Aircraft. armasuisse, an official procurement agency of the Swiss Department of Defence with its own Flight Test Center, will use the Centaur as a flying test bed for new sensors
Testing
Discovery Channel attended a first test by Microflown AVISA, and the MicroAerialVehicle Lab from TU Delft, conducted at Vredepeel airbase. A Skywalker unmanned aircraft was equipped with both a fish eye camera and an Acoustic Vector Sensor. The AVS detected blasts on the ground, providing the acoustic directional information to
Testing
As part of the Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) programme, the US Navy and industry partner Northrop Grumman have been developing Autonomous Aerial Refueling (AAR) technologies to refuel unmanned aircraft in flight. The team completed a series of flight tests January 21 in St. Augustine, Florida, as the latest
Military
MBDA will begin a new round of live flight tests of its Saber guided bomb – one solution for weaponising the Shadow - later this year, according to Doug Denneny, the company's Vice President of Business Development. MBDA has been running its own tests on the Saber's
Testing
This 'Proof of Flight' video from icarusLabs posted in the DARPA uavforge competition shows candidly the various obstacles and solutions that the young engineers experienced in developing their entry. Whilst the result is far from complete, the design shows sone originality with a tendency towards over-complication. Voting in
Events
This video of the Ecilop 1 camera stabilisation system by Aleksey Zaitsevsky is one of the more original entrants in the DARPA uavforge competition. The stabilization system described above can be implemented on multi-copters and any other types of vehicles. This stabilization principle is technically feasible for mounts with any