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AeroVironment’s Hummingbird - a surveillance prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - made the front cover of The Invention issue of TIME, which appears on November 28 and which features 50 new inventions. New York photographer Jamie Chung spent two and a half weeks shooting the Hummingbird—
Research
Queensland University of Technology has just published this thesis by Shane Degen B. Eng. (Hons) QUT at the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, Faculty of Built Environment & Engineering, as part of his Masters Degree.The research was supported and funded by the Australian Research Council, Australian Postgraduate Award,
Research
The United States Air Force has been working on miniature remote controlled drones that resemble a flying insect. Military and civilian scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory came up with the concept while researching how to create unique winged drones that resemble nature’s creations. The goal was to
Applications & Testing & Experience
A team of seven students from the Terrassa School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering (ETSEIAT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have developed the technology for flying the Solar Endeavour UPC, Spain's first photovoltaic-powered plane built by students. The project's main goal was to
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
The project for an Airborne Avalanche Rescue System by designer Tatjana Rolle aims to decrease crucial emergency rescue times after avalanches by utilizing autonomous airborne drones to detect and mark the position of victims. Immediately following the avalanche, the activated drone leaves its solar charging station, scouts the area and
Research
Darpa’s Kathleen Fisher told the agency’s first-ever Cyber Colloqium, a gathering that seeks to enlist hackers’ ideas, that the usual picture of cyberattacks involves hackers — maybe sponsored by a government — trying to penetrate a data network, is too narrow a conception. Cybersecurity, as interpreted by the Pentagon’s
Regulatory Matters
A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.These guidelines will establish methods so that unmanned aircraft systems can be used safely in personal, commercial and academic situations.
Research
Marine Corps Captains Derek Snyder and Dino Cooper, who recently graduated from the Systems Engineering course at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, have designed an unmanned aircraft that is effectively a glider that can fly indefinitely. The planned aircraft was developed as thesis projects by Snyder and Cooper. It is
Events
This the entry from icarusLabs, a team of 10 MIT engineers with specialities in aerospace, control systems and artificial intelligence. Called Stingray, it is a hybrid aircraft with VTOL cpabilities. It has a weight of 9.9 lbs (4.5 kg), a wingspan of 72 inches (1.83 m), an
Applications & Testing & Experience
We first came across the ‘Unmanned Flying Ball from Japan” earlier this year in June. Now the Japanese Ministry of Defence Research Department has made an official launch at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo last week. Fumiyuki Sato, Technical Official at TRDI, Ministry of Defence presented the machine to
Business News
Aurora Flight Sciences has been assigned a patent for a "system and method for the retrieval of a smaller unmanned aerial vehicle by a larger unmanned aerial vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method
Events
Circino Flight Systems submitted a 3-year old video of its ‘Sentry’ Olecopter which tries to satisfy a number of problems with UAV's - combine VTOL performance with high speed in forward flight.A scaled down version (7 feet) of the airframe has been made, has been ground tested