Introduction

One of the critical requirements for the successful integration of unmanned aerial systems into civilian airspace to operate side-by-side with other airborne traffic is complete sense and avoid capabilities otherwise known... Read More

Introduction

Cloud Cap Technology, part of the UTC Aerospace System manufactures, services, markets, services and sells flight management systems, gimbaled camera systems and inertial sensors both manned and unmanned systems (Cloud Cap Technology... Read More

Introduction

Unmanned systems handle data storage and processing in three primary ways: onboard only, onboard and livestreaming, and livestreaming only. Their data storage and transmission design... Read More

Introduction

This post explores the placement of sensors and sensor suites found in commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones. The design and placement of the sensors are generally dictated by its targeted use. The provides a brief description of... Read More

A short exposè on the use of REMUS 6000 emergency response

Introduction

Unmanned Maritime Vehicles (UMVs) can be divided into two categories; Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned...

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In manned aviation, humans act in the command, communication, control and intelligence loop to enable safe flight operations. Aircrafts employ several onboard sensors that work to keep the aircraft from colliding with other aircrafts in the air...    Read More

In the next two years, I predict that unmanned aerial systems will have major impacts on society. The current applications of commercial UAVs are largely limited to visual line of sight VLOS operations. This means that the pilot... Read More

A basic strategy and framework to implementing a successful unmanned system must integrate cross cutting concerns from all stakeholders. The manufacture, end user or enterprise, the civil aviation authority, the affected public and the legislators. The... Read More

In this new space era and race with the privatization of space travel an important question that dominates the debate of space missions is whether unmanned or manned missions should be pursued. The...          Read More

This entry is centred around the article “Air traffic control for delivery drones” by David Schneider.

Beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations for commercial unmanned aerial... Read More

Introduction

This entry is based on the work done by Jeremiah Sullivan, published in IEEE Potentials. Sullivan, J. (2017). An acoustic positioning buoy. IEEE Potentials, 36(2), 16–19. doi:10.1109/MPOT.2016.263037.

Communication underwater... Read More

This blog post provides a brief exposé on the future applications of Unmanned Ground Vehicles outside of self driving cars. Self driving or autonomous cars are the most common application of unmanned ground vehicles... Read More