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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/5/16
August 29, 2016 – September 4, 2016
News
A U.S. airstrike in Syria killed Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior strategist and spokesperson for the Islamic State. According to two U.S. officials w...
05 September 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Regulations on civilian drones in the US and Europe, what do they involve?
With new markets on the horizon, regulations governing civilian drones are currently being adapted in Europe and the US. What will these new regulations entail? And how well will they protect people a...
31 August 2016, by
Silvio Hänsenberger and Isabelle Wildhaber
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/29/16
August 22, 2016 – August 28, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda. According to witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press, the strike t...
30 August 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Tackling the European refugee crisis with solar-powered UAVs: A fully autonomous 26 hour search-and-rescue flight
One year after having demonstrated the 81-hour continuous solar-powered flight that is still the current world record in flight endurance for all aircrafts < 50kg total mass, the AtlantikSolar UAV ...
24 August 2016, by
Philipp Oettershagen
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/22/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As growing numbers of countries around the world acquire and deploy military drones, the task of tracking where they are based and how they are being used b...
22 August 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
News bureaus and networks setting up drone divisions
CNN just inaugurated their new drone division. So have many other news organizations. Network providers are also setting up drone operations for a variety of purposes....
22 August 2016, by
Frank Tobe
Everything you need to know about drone racing
By Matt Windsor
This past weekend, 145 competitors from around the world gathered on New York City’s Governors Island for the second annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships. The winner wa...
16 August 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/15/16
August 8, 2016 – August 14, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Earlier this month, hundreds of drones descended upon New York’s Governors Island for the second annual U.S. Nationa...
15 August 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Flying Ring robot can fly on its side
The Flying Ring is a new flying vehicle being developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich. The goal of the project is to fully characterize all aerodynamic properties of th...
09 August 2016, by
Rajan Gill
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/8/16
News
A U.S. airstrike in Yemen killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In a statement, U.S. Central Command announced that the strike took place in Yemen’s central Shabwa provi...
08 August 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
06 August 2016, by
Audrow Nash
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/1/16
July 25, 2016 – July 31, 2016
News
The U.S. Air Force has created a new training course for officers responsible for ensuring that the communications between drones and pilots are secure. The Elec...
01 August 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
‘IDSC Tailsitter’ flying robot performs vertical loops and easily transitions between hover and forward flight
The IDSC Tailsitter has been designed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, as a testbed for novel control algorithms for tailsitter vehicles. The goal of the project is to dev...
28 July 2016, by
Robin Ritz
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/25/16
News
A federal judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration has the authority to require Austin and Bret Haughwout to turn over documents relating to two homemade drones. In 2015, the Haugh...
26 July 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/18/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
A cache of personal documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011 includes several letters that refer to the drones used by the U...
18 July 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Growing numbers of robots are being transferred from the U.S. Department of Defense to domestic law enforcement agencies. We have conducted an in-depth anal...
11 July 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/4/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria is the first major war in which drones have been used extensively to create aerial videos of events on the ground, pr...
05 July 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
FAA announcement for sUAS met with industry excitement
This morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the highly anticipated rules governing the operation of small UAS (sUAS) for commercial purposes. The new rules are scheduled to take...
21 June 2016, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have passed competing drafts of the National Defense Authorization Act, which establishes funding prioritie...
20 June 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Small UAV turbojet engine developed in Japan
YSEC, with support from the government, and in partnership with national research institution AIST and small- to medium-sized companies in Niigata Prefecture with superior technology in metal processi...
14 June 2016, by
DigInfo TV
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/13/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Unmanned technology is becoming an increasingly hot commodity on the global market; it is no surprise, then, that the last few years have seen a spate of ca...
13 June 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
How might drone racing drive innovation?
Over the past 15 years, drones have progressed from laboratory demonstrations to widely available toys. Technological improvements have brought ever-smaller components required for flight stabilizatio...
10 June 2016, by
Jack Langelaan
Xiaomi challenges DJI with a low-cost drone
Xiaomi, one of China’s star Internet, phone and electronics startups, develops cut-rate but reliable phones and consumer devices and markets them directly to consumers online. Their new HD drone...
09 June 2016, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/6/16
5/30/16 – 6/5/16
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted Abdullahi Haji Da’ud, a senior member of al-Shabab. In a statement, spokesperson Peter Cook said that the Pentagon is still eval...
08 June 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/30/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As more commercial drone users take to the sky, insurers are struggling to develop policies to cover the eventualities of flying. Meanwhile, insurance compa...
31 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/23/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Are drones a revolutionary technology? What exactly do we mean when we say “the drone revolution”? This semester at Bard College, the Center taught an u...
23 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Autonomous exploration planning using aerial robots
Autonomous exploration of unknown environments corresponds to a critical ability and a major challenge for aerial robots. In many cases, we would like to rely on the ability of an intelligent flying s...
23 May 2016, by
Kostas Alexis and Andreas Bircher
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/16/16
5/9/16 – 5/15/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Companies that offer a range of end-to-end drone services are becoming increasingly significant players in the domestic drone industry...
17 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Visiting with local hobbyists on DC Drone Day
By Dan Gettinger
On May 7, 2016, a group of model aircraft hobbyists gathered at Walt Good Field in Boyds, Maryland to celebrate the D.C. Drone Day. The small airfield, situated some 22 miles outsi...
10 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/9/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On May 7, the Academy of Model Aeronautics celebrated National Drone Day with events that brought together hobbyists across the country. We were on-site for...
09 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
