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‘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
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...
03 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
01 May 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js
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?...
27 April 2016, by
Dirk Gorissen
Big day for robotics: 3 fundings and a merger acquisition
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 ...
21 April 2016, by
Frank Tobe
Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat
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...
13 April 2016, by
Christian Bettstetter
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...
11 April 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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...
04 April 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Drones to help farmers with weed control
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...
01 April 2016, by
Horizon Magazine
3D Robotics undergoing layoffs and other challenges
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 ...
29 March 2016, by
Frank Tobe
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...
29 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/21/16
3/14/16 – 3/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In our new report, “Analysis of U.S. Drone Exemptions 2014-2015,” we studied 2,700 FAA permits for non-recreational drone use to ...
22 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
