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Bio-inspired Airborne Infrastructure Reconfiguration (BioAIR)
Conventionally, most autonomous mobile nodes, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are operated remotely by human operators. As such, forming a mobile communication network to...
Articles Aerospace
Optical Ice Sensors for UAVs
The perverse thing about ice on the tailplane of a general aviation aircraft is that the pilot sits and looks forward, but the tailplane is aft. You can’t see it from the cockpit.
Articles Defense
Using SWaP-C Reductions to Improve UAS/UGV Mission Capabilities
The defense and aerospace market continues to push for reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) to support advanced sensor/vetronics payloads onboard unmanned...
Articles Aerospace
Designing Rugged Computing Platforms for UGVs
While the military’s proliferation of unmanned aircraft, or drones, continues to grab the headlines, the deployment of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) is also anticipated to expand based on their...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Power-Line UAV Modeling and Simulation
The Army Research Laboratory Power-Line Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Modeling and Simulation (ARL-PLUMS) Software Tool allows a user to model, compute, and analyze the quasistatic electric and magnetic...
Articles Aerospace
XPONENTIAL: An AUVSI Experience
At AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2015 in Atlanta Georgia, it was announced that the conference and trade show was being officially rebranded in 2016 to XPONENTIAL – An AUVSI Experience. The event, which runs from...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Fighting for Life in Military Markets
Visits to the Seville headquarters of Airbus Defence & Space (Airbus DS) have often reflected stormy prospects for the company’s large-capacity A400M Atlas transport, which has suffered cost...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Lithium Battery Pack
800-537-1368 www.tadiran.com When designing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), engineers must continually seek to reduce size and weight wherever possible in order to improve aerodynamics and free up critical space to deploy...
Articles Aerospace
Implementing Secure Command and Control in Unmanned Systems
Unmanned vehicles are at the forefront of an evolution, especially with the proliferation of the Internet of Things. After decades of serving mission-critical applications in...
Articles Defense
Countering Cybersecurity Threats Against Unmanned Vehicle Systems
As the use of UASs and UAVs increase in the modern battlefield, the need to secure these weapon platforms is of increasing importance as any flaw could have catastrophic results....
Application Briefs Defense
Autonomous Aerial Refueling
Northrop Grumman Corp. Falls Church, VA 703-280-2900 www.northropgrumman.com Earlier this year, Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated fully autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) with...
Articles Defense
Compact Thermal Management Solutions for Mobile Laser Weapon Systems
The Navy is developing a vehicle mounted directed energy (DE) weapon system in their Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Directed Energy On-The-Move (OTM) program. As part of this...
Articles Aerospace
Maximizing Thermal Cooling Efficiencies in High-Performance Processors
Despite the continuous development of new, higher performing processors, the thirst for increased embedded computing capability remains unquenched. In fact, it seems like...
Articles Defense
UGVs — On the Cutting Edge of Thermal Management
Thermal management of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is more complex than other electronic equipment because they have to operate in harsh environments such as humid tropical rainforests or...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Connectivity in Robotic Systems
While many think of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or space probes and planet rovers when they think of unmanned systems, the field of robotics covers every environment known to man: sea, ground, air, and space....
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Simultaneous Vibration Suppression and Energy Harvesting for a Multifunctional UAV Spar
The goal of this work was to investigate using harvested energy to directly control the vibration response of flexible aerospace systems. Small,...
Briefs Aerospace
Pushbroom Stereo for High-Speed UAV Navigation in Cluttered Environments
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) rely on an external motion-capture apparatus that gives the vehicles almost perfect state information at high rates. Major challenges in...
Application Briefs Defense
Anti-Hacking Software for UAVs
Galois Portland, OR 503-626-6616 http://galois.com To address growing evidence that commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), automobiles and other vehicles are vulnerable to hacking and sophisticated cyber...
Application Briefs Defense
UAV Circuit Boards
Sunstone Circuits Mulino, OR 503-829-9108 www.sunstone.com Miki Szmuk is an aerospace engineer with big ideas for building better unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As a doctoral student from the Controls Lab for Distributed...
Articles Defense
Electronic Warfare Technology
Military electronic warfare (EW) systems including navigation, radar guidance, terrain mapping and others, require lightweight compact components, with radio frequency (RF) output power levels to several kilowatts...
Articles Defense
New RF Strategies for Software Radio
Software defined radio system engineers can now exploit new technology to perform digital signal processing much closer to the antenna than ever before. Various strategies include the latest wideband data...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Fully Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Lockheed Martin Bethesda, MD 866-562-2363 www.lockheedmartin.com/unmanned Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC),...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Optimizing DSP Techniques for Antenna Site Software Radio
Many applications can benefit from pushing software radio functions up the mast to the antenna as a viable alternative to traditional rack-mounted receiver systems. New technology offers...
Technology Update Defense
Unmanned Aircraft Must Rise Above Barriers for Commercial Applications
Historically, the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market has been dominated by military applications from surveillance to active engagement. In the near term, the market’s...
News Unmanned Systems
Embry-Riddle Worldwide to Offer Master’s in Unmanned Systems
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University–Worldwide will begin offering a Master of Science in Unmanned Systems degree this August. Unmanned systems coursework will examine the...
Articles Aerospace
Navigating Regulatory Compliance for UAV Electronics Development
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) deliver sophisticated capabilities with tremendous cost advantage over traditional methods. While this technology has evolved from military...
Articles Defense
The Evolution of Tactical Robots
The lessons of yesterday and today are driving tomorrow’s robotic programs. A revolution in Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is taking place today that focuses on formalizing the permanent integration of ground...
Briefs Information Technology
Supervisory Control State Diagrams to Depict Autonomous Activity
The military seeks to enable agile and adaptive mission management and control for a team comprised of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unattended ground sensors (UGS), dismounted...
Briefs Information Technology
Aerodynamic Modeling of a Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
The phenomenon of flapping wing flight in nature has been studied for centuries. Recently, flapping flight for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications has become of interest....
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