UAVs

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UAVs

While the words ‘drone’ and ‘UAV’ still conjure up images of toy multirotors in the mind of the average person...

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Andy Lacher

Integrating uncrewed vehicles into controlled airspace that has evolved to handle aircraft carrying human pilots...

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Sports glider becomes hardened military air vehicle

DZYNE is working with the US Air Force Research Laboratory...

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Enabling robotic arms to tie knots in cables

Researchers have developed a technique for UAVs to pick up large objects using knotted cables...

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Single-photon Lidar maps challenging terrain

Researchers in China have developed a compact, lightweight single-photon airborne Lidar..

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Sensor switches from edge detection to infrared fast

A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging can be fitted easily to a UAV for remote...

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3D-printable superalloy survives extreme temperatures

A new generation of superalloys is opening up new opportunities for UAV and space system design...

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UAVs deliver to offshore wind farms

We all forget small things from time to time, or we come to do a repair job and realise we can’t...

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Navigating with image sensors and machine learning algos

Researchers at the University of Missouri are developing algorithms for autonomous visual navigation...

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AI processing board for UAV thermal cameras

Teledyne FLIR has developed a video processor for AI algorithms to use in its thermal cameras...
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