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The Future of Better Drones Is for the Birds
David Lentink, an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, has been studying birds in flight with an eye toward applying the tricks birds use to navigate changing conditions in...
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Northrop Grumman Navigates on the Neuron UCAV Demonstrator
Northrop Grumman's subsidiary in Germany, Northrop Grumman LITEF, teamed with Saab Aerosystems to provide the AHRS (attitude and heading reference system) for the Neuron unmanned...
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NASA Takes a Respectable-Sized Step Toward Supersonic Flight
Research on supersonic flight has quietly been infiltrating the desks of a variety of engineering work stations, verified by NASA's recent contract award for the preliminary...
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Royal Navy Uses Pilotless Aircraft to Navigate Through Ice
A tiny pilotless aircraft, built by the University of Southampton, launched from the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with navigating...
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NASA and FAA Demonstrate Wireless Communication with Aircraft
For the first time ever, a team of engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center conveyed aviation data -- including route options and weather information -- to an airplane over a...
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Brightness Enhancement Film
American Polarizers Inc. (API) (Reading, PA) has expanded its product offering with 3M Vikuiti™ Brightness Enhancement Films (3M BEF). A single 3M BEF sheet increases the brightness of backlit LCD displays by up to...
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Antenna Design Turns Entire Vehicles into Broadcasting Equipment
High-frequency antennas transmit radio waves across vast distances and even over mountain ranges using very little energy, making them ideal for military communications. These...
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Army Scientists Synthesize High-Performing Energetic Material
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently synthesized a new material called bis-isoxazole tetranitrate, or BITN, with potential applications in propulsion and...
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Autonomous Underwater Munitions and Explosives of Concern Detection System
The objective of Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Project MR-201002, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Munitions and Explosives of...
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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...
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Design of a Multi-Segmented Magnetic Robot for Hull Inspection
Hull, deck plate, and tank inspection for corrosion, deformation, and fractures is a necessary part of ship maintenance to ensure functional integrity and proper operation of the...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
A Modular Approach to Video Designation of Manipulation Targets for Mobile Manipulators
Currently fielded EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robots are limited in terms of both mechanical ability and autonomous capabilities when compared to the...
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Two-Dimensional Distributed Velocity Collision Avoidance
As the number of autonomous vehicles continues to increase for both commercial and military applications, collision avoidance algorithms are of the utmost importance to successfully...
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Undersea Communications Between Submarines and Unmanned Undersea Vehicles in a Command and Control Denied Environment
Nuclear powered submarines can stay submerged for days at a time and only have to come to periscope depth (PD) for...
Articles Aerospace
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...
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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...
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Bi-manual Dexterous Manipulation for Maritime Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Since 2001, there has been a proliferation of robots within the U.S. military to assist with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) missions. Ground robotics systems are able...
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Applying UUV Advances to Safeguard Harbors and Littoral Waters
Advances in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are providing government agencies and commercial organizations with new capabilities across a variety of mission requirements....
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Designing a Robot to Counter Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
The use of Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED) has increased each year. Current anti-VBIED technology is not only expensive, but requires months or years of...
Application Briefs Defense
Unmanned Helicopter
+43 (1) 546 26-44 www.schiebel.net In five months of operation, the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved over 8,800 lives in the Mediterranean. By spotting and monitoring distressed vessels, Schiebel’s Unmanned...
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Mini-Unmanned Aircraft System
817-234-6600 www.elbitsystems.com Elbit Systems has developed the Skylark3, a new autonomous mini-Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), best suited for brigades and divisions in “beyond the next hill” reconnaissance,...
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Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems
L-3 Link Simulation & Training Arlington, TX 817-619-2000 www.Link.com L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) was recently awarded a contract option from the U.S. Air Force to build 34 new...
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Field Swappable Underwater Storage Unit
+39 0575 26979 www.seco.com The Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), an executive body of NATO’s Science and Technology Organization (STO), is an established scientific facility that...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Reconfigurable Integrated-Weapons Platform
716-805-2008 www.moog.com/rwip Moog Inc. Space and Defense Group and its defense-industry partner, DRS Technologies, recently introduced a new Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) during a...
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Pseudo Satellite, Potential Disrupter, Flies on Sunlight
It used to be that the defense sector set the bar for hi-tech electronic developments, which were then adapted, subject to security veto, and then applied to commercial aviation....
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Rolls-Royce, Purdue Partner on Jet Engine Design
Rolls-Royce and Purdue University have formed a $33 million jet-engine research and development program to create next-generation aircraft propulsion systems.
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Vistara Deploys SITA AIRCOM and Network Technology
SITA and SITAONAIR have completed the joint implementation of aircraft communications, airline operations, and network connectivity for Vistara, the joint venture between Tata Sons Ltd and...
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Lockheed Martin LM-100J Starts Taking (A Similar) Shape
Wing production for the first Lockheed Martin LM-100J commercial multi-purpose freighter has begun in Marietta, GA, which is also home to the C-130J Super Hercules final assembly line....
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