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- Robot gas stations in the sky
- According to Aviation Week, U.S. engineers will soon demonstrate the first in-flight docking of two unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs while continuing the development of an autonomous aerial refueling system. Two specially designed UAVs, a tanker and a receiver, will perform their first test flights next month. 'One of the six-foot...
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- Robots fly over Antarctica
- Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey BAS have successfully run a series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs over Antarctica. These robotic planes have a 2-meter wingspan and weigh 6 kilograms. They are powered by Lithium Ion Polymer LIPo battery packs -- similar to the ones in your...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- A flying fish or a seaplane?
- University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- A Middleware Architecture for Unmanned Aircraft Avionics
- An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. If it must be economically viable, the same platform should implement a variety of missions with little...
- White papers 2007-11-30
- MIT's smart flying drones
- As recent events have shown, military forces around the world are more and more relying on small unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs for surveillance missions. But these UAVs usually need many skilled operators to control them. Now, the Boston Globe reports that a new MIT air force is ready for help....
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
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- iDrone 1.4 (Mac)
- Drone is a UAV simulator that allows you to control an unmanned aerial vehicle, flying over a large 3D city scape or a mountain terrain. iDrone features a target practice mode where you control the vehicle and destroy targest placed randomly throughout the city. iDrone features a mission mode where...
- Software downloads 2009-07-24
- A different 'spin' on flying cars
- A company in Australia is developing a flight technology that allows for compact Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTOL using a type of fan system to move air that is commonly found in central heating/cooling systems. [caption id="attachment_1525" align="alignleft" width="245" caption="Entecho's Hoverpod"][/caption] Entecho is using...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- iDrone 1.4 (Windows)
- Drone is a UAV simulator that allows you to control an unmanned aerial vehicle, flying over a large 3D city scape or a mountain terrain. iDrone features a target practice mode where you control the vehicle and destroy targest placed randomly throughout the city. iDrone features a mission mode where...
- Software downloads 2009-03-27
- iDrone 1.0 (Mobile)
- iDrone has a target practice mode where you locate and destroy targets throughout the city. iDrone has a mission mode where you fly your unmanned aerial vehicle on specific missions to destroy one or more targets. Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where...
- Software downloads 2008-12-10
- Robot helicopters flying low among obstacles
- According to New Scientist, engineers at Carnegie Mellon University CMU have modified an unmanned commercial civilian helicopter to fly fast and low while avoiding obstacles such as buildings, trees or power lines. The unmanned aerial vehicle UAV from Yamaha has been adapted to integrate a sensing system able to see...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Congress: Open-source for U.S. military
- If you thought you'd never see the phrase"open-source" in a federal funding bill, think again. The House’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- (Photos: Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army)
- (Photos: Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army)Cool movie toy!!Looks like a gadget right out of a Batman movie. Am interested in how silent and power efficient this is going to be. You would think UAVs are a better choice.RE: (Photos: Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army)10 Million, ME!...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Military robots from 2007 to 2032
- A new report from the U.S. Department of Defense DoD looks at the future of military's unmanned systems over the next 25 years. This 188-page report covers air-, land- and sea-based unmanned technology from 2007 to 2032. The long document notes that drone aircraft and ground-based robots have already proved...
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- Rudy's brilliant new idea: a virtual border fence
- Here we go - another tech-clueless politician believes technology will provide a panacea for difficult problems. Rudy Giuiliani says he wants to build a virtual fence to monitor the whole - or at least much of the - US-Mexico border, the AP reports. The...
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- IT success: CA fire-fighting infrastructure
- As fires continue to rage in Southern California, emergency responders and local residents alike are supported by rapidly-deployed IT systems. Government Computer News reports on the important role IT infrastructure plays in helping fire-fighting and communications: 1. Website bandwith...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- A robotic Meridian to fly over the poles
- The Meridian unmanned aerial vehicle UAV is a single-engine research aircraft with fixed landing gear designed by engineers at the University of Kansas. According to Technology Review, it will be used to see what happens beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Two units are currently built for a cost...
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea
- Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- A drone as wide as a Boeing 737
- According to a short report by AFP, Israel is developing a killer robot plane. This drone is designed for long-range operations -- more than 50 hours and several thousand miles -- while weighing 4 tons during takeoff. This unmanned combat aerial vehicle UCAV, dubbed Eitan Steadfast will have a wing...
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- New tricks in automated image analysis
- Using software to analyze images is not new. In fact, its almost a mature technology. But there are still issues to solve, especially when you need to analyze images in real time. In this article, Advanced Imaging Magazine looks at three particular industry segments which are using these technologies: geosciences,...
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Performance Measurement of 802.11a Wireless Links From UAV to Ground Nodes With Various Antenna Orientations
- This paper reports measured performance of 802.11a wireless links from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV to ground stations. In a set of field experiments, it records the Received Signal Strength Indicator RSSI and measure the raw link-layer throughput for various antenna orientations, communication distances and ground-station elevations. By comparing the...
- White papers 2006-10-10
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