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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...
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...
Flying Ring robot can fly on its side
Rajan Gill
09 Aug 2016
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...
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...
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Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2016
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 ...
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...
‘IDSC Tailsitter’ flying robot performs vertical loops and easily transitions between hover and forward flight
Robin Ritz
28 Jul 2016
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FAA announcement for sUAS met with industry excitement
Diana Marina Cooper
21 Jun 2016
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...
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...
Small UAV turbojet engine developed in Japan
DigInfo TV
14 Jun 2016
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...
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...
How might drone racing drive innovation?
Jack Langelaan
10 Jun 2016
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...
Xiaomi challenges DJI with a low-cost drone
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2016
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...
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...
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...
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...
Autonomous exploration planning using aerial robots
Kostas Alexis and Andreas Bircher
23 May 2016
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Monospinner: world’s mechanically simplest controllable flying machine
The Monospinner (Fig.1), developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, is the mechanically simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence. It has only one moving part ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/2/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
From April 11 to 15, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons convened hundreds of delegates from member states and non-governmental or...
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podcast
Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Abate De Mey
01 May 2016
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js
Dirk Gorissen
27 Apr 2016
You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. Where, how, and why do you start looking?...
Big day for robotics: 3 fundings and a merger acquisition
Frank Tobe
21 Apr 2016
Auris Surgical Robotics will acquire Hansen Medical for $80M+, PrecisionHawk raised $18M to help bring commercial drones safely into US airspace, and SkySafe raised $3M to disable badly behaving ...
Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat
Christian Bettstetter
13 Apr 2016
Samira Hayat is following her calling: She has been a member of the Mobile Systems research team at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems since 2012. Before that, she studied in Trento. Ma...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/11/16
4/4/16 – 4/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Every few years, the Federal Aviation Administration has to be authorized so that it can receive funding and do its job. The U.S. Cong...
Can I trust my robot? And should my robot trust me?
Riccardo Bevilacqua
07 Apr 2016
If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/4/16
3/28/16 – 4/3/16
News
The U.S. military announced that it carried out a drone strike in Somalia targeting Hassan Ali Dhoore, a senior leader of al-Shabab’s intelligence and security division...
Drones to help farmers with weed control
Horizon Magazine
01 Apr 2016
by Fintan Burke
The last place you might expect to find drones and rovers is checking up on a corn field, but they could soon join tractors and ploughs on a farmer’s list of must-have agricultura...
3D Robotics undergoing layoffs and other challenges
Frank Tobe
29 Mar 2016
3D Robotics unveiled sweeping changes by closing its San Diego facility, reducing staff at its Berkeley headquarters and in Austin, TX, and acknowledging that co-founder and president Jordi Muñoz ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/28/16
3/21/16 – 3/27/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On Friday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration released 582 new reports of incidents involving drones in the national airsp...
