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Q&A: Physical Sciences
Professor Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar and her team at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that uses reinforcement learning to adaptively learn how turbulent wind can change over time and then uses that knowledge to control the UAV based on what it is experiencing.
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Briefs: AR/AI
A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a drone that flies autonomously using neuromorphic image processing and control based on the workings of animal brains.
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5 Ws: Motion Control
A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a drone that flies autonomously using neuromorphic image processing and control based on the workings of animal brains.
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Technology & Society: Green Design & Manufacturing
The detection would start on the ground via internet-connected sensors placed in CalFire-determined areas of danger. For reconnaissance missions, the team is building a rotorcraft equipped with navigation systems, sensors, and cameras.
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Briefs: Software
By using artificial intelligence, researchers are developing a system that can automatically identify buildings after disasters and make an initial determination of whether they are damaged and how serious that damage might be.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
When multiple drones are working together in the same airspace, perhaps spraying pesticide over a field of corn, there’s a risk they might crash into each other. To help avoid these costly crashes, MIT researchers developed a system called MADER in 2020.
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Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that could be used to control a robot, such as a drone or autonomous vehicle, more effectively and efficiently in dynamic environments where conditions can change rapidly.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments.
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Briefs: Imaging
Advanced technology plays a vital role in search and rescue operations after natural disasters such as earthquakes. Thermal imaging equipment and sensitive listening devices are deployed to seek out signs of life.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Ornithological animals have always benefited from folding their wings during upstroke. So, a Swedish-Swiss research team has constructed a robotic wing that can flap like a bird.
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Briefs: Design
Biomimicking Hummingbirds for Better Drones
Hummingbirds have extreme aerial agility and flight forms, which is why many drones and other aerial vehicles are designed to mimic hummingbird movement.
Briefs: Imaging
A team at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has recently been assessing the potential for using a small, portable observation drone in remote regions.
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Briefs: Unmanned Systems
NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project is developing innovative data solutions to assure safe, rapid, and repeatable access to a transformed National Airspace System.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
For drones to autonomously perform necessary but quotidian tasks, they must be able to adapt to wind conditions in real time.
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Blog: Unmanned Systems
The Trojan Unmanned Hover Plane (UHP) is a one-of-a-kind system that bridges the gap between the need to hover and the need to reach long ranges, giving it the ability to perform aerial missions with pinpoint precision.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Acoustic optimization for anti-phase asymmetric rotor.
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Facility Focus: Electronics & Computers
Founded in 1876, the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Bolder) is a public research university in Boulder, CO. The College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Boulder was founded in 1893. With an increased...
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Briefs: Energy
A continuous flight of small drones over its perimeter could enhance security of the nation's border, but there is one small problem: The battery limitation of small drones (they last about 30 minutes) is...
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Substances such as plastics, metals, and wax are used in 3D printers to make products and parts for larger items. Products created through the 3D printing of plastics include every-thing from toys...
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Facility Focus: RF & Microwave Electronics
Learn about the aviation, space, cybersecurity, and engineering achievements happening at Embry-Riddle.
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Briefs: Unmanned Systems
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
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Briefs: Design
A new robot developed by Caltech researchers LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying.
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5 Ws: RF & Microwave Electronics
About the size of a grain of sand, the flying microchip (or microflier) does not have a motor or engine.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include avionics, data storage, process control, reconfigurable manufacturing lines, and civil and structural engineering.
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Briefs: Communications
UAVs can land on moving unmanned ground vehicles without GPS.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A silicon chip provides a low-cost solution to help machines see the world clearly.
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Briefs: Software
The algorithm calculates time-optimal trajectories that fully consider the drones’ limitations.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The new algorithm could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and rescue.
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Application Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Unmanned aircraft present a range of optics challenges.
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