The COAST team descended on the UK’s Yorkshire coastline during the lowest forecast tides of the year to examine what is thought to be the remnants of a Roman Harbour, jutting out from Filey Brigg. The Brigg is rocky spit protruding out to sea that is regularly washed by high seas. The Filey Brigg research Group have been investigating the harbour...
Aerovel has released this video of the Aug 11, 2011, transition between vertical and horizontal flight by its Flexrotor vertical take-off and landing small unmanned aircraft. The flight included a hover and vertical recovery. Flexrotor has been designed by the same people who developed the Insitu ScanEagle long-endurance small UAV and is designed for fully automatic vertcial take-off and...
The products, patter and shoes have been polished. Ties straightened. Will AUVSI 2011 be a triumph with a sea of cutting edge technology and airspace announcements or just more of the same? PAS 2011 on the UAS side was thought to be somewhat dull amongst industry insiders, mostly seen before and downbeat. Probably the most important thing that can...
The fantastic SmartBird from Festo made an appearance at the TED talk in Edinburgh. We love biomimicry at sUAS News! Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings....
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it lost control of an unmanned helicopter during a flight near the No. 2 reactor building, forcing the controller to make an emergency landing on a roof there. Tokyo Electric Power Company says the remote-controlled light helicopter took off from an observatory south of the Fukushima plant just past...
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have further strengthened their relationship by announcing Telemos as the name of the programme that will deliver their joint response for a next generation Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). In Greek mythology, Telemos was the prophetic son of Eurymos, known for having the vision and foresight to warn Polyphemus about...
The Centre has approved a budget of Rs1,500 crore for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to develop India’s latest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Rustom-H. This was disclosed by the chief controller, research and development of DRDO, W Selvamurthy, in Pune on Thursday. He was speaking at a press meet held on the sidelines of the second national...
A team from Honeywell have been the latest to fly sUAS over the stricken plant at Fukushima Daiichi. Its a little surprising that more has not been made of the Yamaha RMAX fleet of robotic helicopters that Japan is famous for. Instead international teams from France and now the USA have been called in. The Wall Street Journal carried comments from the...
Nice one for a Friday afternoon, we are not convinced this is the most efficient way to control a multirotor. It points to the future though. Joysticks may become a thing of the past?. This week in the UK a Royal Air Force study showed that non pilots performed as well as trained pilots whilst commanding UAS. The RAF’s...
A team of researchers from the Communication Engineering Department (DICOM), University of Cantabria works, together with Indra Espacio in the development of communications systems equipment and high-capacity aircraft applications in both manned and unmanned. The latter are known as UAVs by the acronym “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.” The group composed of teachers and Antonio Angel Mediavilla Bowl, along with investigators...
