The Deccan Chronicle Dhaksha, a team comprising faculty, students and technical consultants of Madras Institute of Technology, attached to Anna University, Chennai, has been shortlisted to participate in the final leg of UAVForge, an international competition for unmanned air vehicles, to be held at Fort Stewart military base in Georgia ,USA from May 10 to 20. MIT team has...
The DARPA UAV Forge competition is now approaching the Fly Off event at Fort Stewart, Georgia. No specific date for the Fly Off has been announced as yet but the organizers have stated that it will be held sometime around middle of May this year. Congratulations to the 12 teams that have been voted past Milestone 3 – Live Demo and are now the...
A total of 385 individuals voted 1511 times and 255 comments were posted by 158 individuals during the voting period. According to the UAV Forge organisers: “The final rankings posted for each team represent a filtered score that objectively captures the underlying information content of observable voting patterns. We won’t be more specific, because we aren’t willing to risk...
Fort Stewart, Georgia has been announced as the UAVForge Competition’s Fly-Off venue, where the 10 finalist teams will demonstrate their systems live. No specific date has been announced yet, but the organisers have stated that the event will take place around the middle of May this year. Fort Stewart is home to the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. The...
Current sensor systems, like those being developed for DARPA’s Adaptable Sensor System (ADAPT) program, are increasingly complex; they offer advances in capabilities far beyond their current use. One significant limiting factor in our ability to leverage all of these advances is the lack of sophisticated, adaptive applications. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), for example, have become indispensible intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...
Video submissions to for the DARPA sponsored $100,000 prize money UAV Forge competition should be flooding in. Teams submit their videos and the community created by DARPA then vote on their favourites. Lets hope the FBI don’t decide that the teams entering are not a security threat. All of them will have given more thought to UAS flight than...
DARPA have created a crowd sourced sUAS design competition with a $100,000 dollar prize. They are now looking for companies to develop the winning designs. This is the second major ticket competition to be announced this year for sUAS. The Chinese carrier landing competition carries a total prize fund of $378,000. To date the Outback Challenge in Australia has been the...
Boeing has announced that it has won funding to the tune of $89 million from DARPA to develop its Solar Eagle UAV. Solar power is a hot topic, no pun intended. QinetiQs Zephyr flew for 14 days and 22 hours earlier this year. Sources have told us that it could have gone much longer. Boeing was chosen over an offering...
The Boeing A160 Hummingbird that came to grief on approach in Belize at the beginning of September was testing a DARPA foliage penetrating radar. The FORESTER is a synthetic aperture radar system with a resolution of 6 meters that is mounted inside a 21.5-foot (6.6 m) long pod and designed to be carried under a A160 Hummingbird helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)....
The Register reports here that DARPA has forked out $360,000 on VBATs from MLB. Last we heard on the DIYD podcast in November 2009 MLB had not made the transition from horizontal to vertical flight reliably. What makes the article stand out though is the description of DARPA. “DARPA, the US military research bureau occasionally prone to embarrassing tumbles...
