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Photos: Tech wins big in US Army 'best inventions' awards
Photo The kit is a modular video and data system that lets soldiers in the field receive near-real-time surveillance image and geospatial data directly from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aircraft. [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo There's been a lot written in recent months about UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles. Players large and small in the robotics industry descended on Boston, US this week for the two-day RoboBusiness conference, bringing... [20 Apr 2009]
Lessons Learned Constructing a Wireless Ad Hoc Network Test Bed
White Paper The test bed described in this paper is designed to facilitate experiments based on wireless ad hoc networks including radios mounted at fixed sites, on ground vehicles, and in small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). [03 Apr 2009]
A Middleware Architecture for Unmanned Aircraft Avionics
White Paper With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. [03 Jan 2009]
Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' passes first test
Photo At the moment, tests of Watchkeeper are being conducted in Israel, as flights of UAVs are prohibited in UK civil airspace. The Ministry of Defence's £800m vision of an unmanned spy plane got a step closer with the first... [26 Nov 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo A handheld PC is used to program the UAVs with waypoints and threat detection is performed by the operator. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify, locate and report... [06 May 2008]
Test Bed for a Wireless Network on Small UAVs
White Paper Small (10kg) UAVs are low-cost low-risk candidates for emerging UAV applications. A key enabler is the ability of the UAVs to communicate with each other and with ground based radios as a distributed... [01 Aug 2007]
Robot stealth jet gets £124m boost
News It said Taranis (see computer-generated image below) will be one of the world's largest UAVs - about the size of a Hawk jet - and will integrate stealth technology around an "intelligent, autonomous system". [12 Dec 2006]
