Australian-based Millswood Engineering (www.millswoodeng.com.au) has developed a new onboard generator for small to medium-sized UAVs. Onboard electrical power generation is useful for extending the range and endurance of unmanned aircraft. Coupled with a suitable brushless DC motor, the new Power Management Unit (PMU) performs all of the functions necessary to assemble a high-performance and full-featured power generation system. The...
The contemporary market offers a number of autopilots for MAV in the budget price range. Rapid development of electronic technologies allows expanding functional capabilities of flight controllers, therefore making existing ones obsolete. SmartAP – is an autopilot, developed using the latest element base at the moment, which allowed us to include maximum functionality in minimum dimensions (printed circuit board...
Project Ursula is a two-year research and development programme between Callen-Lenz and Environment Systems to explore the potential for field-specific scanning using unmanned drones to capture high-definition field images. Viewed as an alternative to satellite imagery, it captures a greater level of detail – useful for the basis of a Green Area Index for example – to allow greater...
Higher Colleges of Technology Teams mentored by Northrop Grumman Engineers, will design, build and fly an automated unmanned aerial vehicle. Teams will demonstrate what they have learned in a flying competition in April 2012. The winning team will be invited to attend AUVSI’s (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Unmanned Systems North America, 7-10 August 2012 in Las Vegas,...
The Alberta Aviation Museum hosted a press conference at 10am Friday March 30 at the Aviation Museum to announce a special program to promote youth in Aerospace with an international twist. The Alberta Aviation Museum received an invitation from the Schools Aerospace Challenge, which takes place at the prestigious Cranfield University in England, to field the First Canadian Team...
Singapore has bagged top prizes in two categories in an international Unmanned Aerial Vehicle design contest. Two teams from Nanyang Technological University faced competition from over 90 groups hailing from China and Taiwan. They were placed first in the “Best Navigational Flight Design” and “Best Fundamental Design (Motor)” categories. The annual contest is organised by Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung...
NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) solutions company, has been selected to join the University of Dayton Research Institute’s Center for Unmanned Aerial System Exploitation (CUE) consortium. CUE was established in September 2009 under a grant from the Ohio Third Frontier programme to meet increasing demand for sensor & payload integration, systems analysis, and flight demonstration & test...
In the March 27, 2012’s edition of the Los Angeles Times, John Villasenor, UCLA professor, contributed an Op-Ed piece with the suggestion that drone proliferation raises an issue that has received too little attention: the threat that they could be used to carry out terrorist attacks. AMA President, Bob Brown, immediately replied to the piece with the following message:...
Data Patterns Group and SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, have signed a Head of Terms agreement with a view towards forming a Joint Venture (JV) later this year. The joint venture will be located in Chennai, India and will focus on a broad range of defence electronic products and state-of-the-art technology developments. The two companies will leverage their strong...
This will cause some heads to turn at the FAA ready to run first person view (FPV) systems. A 6MP camera sends video back to the RC transmitter that has a built in screen although that might be hard to see in strong sunlight. A shade is provided, but a video out jack for goggles or large screen might...
