On Friday, May 7, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter left both Wright Brothers Field and the Perseverance Rover behind. Flying for…
Engineering & Design
Inside Ingenuity with AeroVironment Part II: Challenges Overcome
As of Friday, April 30 (local time), the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had completed its fourth successful flight, exceeding expectations and…
Teamed With an Eye in the Sky
Vision-Based Collaborative Navigation for UAV-UGV-Dismounted Units in GPS-Challenged Environments A collaborative navigation scenario between manned and unmanned systems operates in…
Inside Skunk Works® with Lockheed Martin – Advanced Design, Lean Organization
Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works® was unorthodox from its start. Conceived in 1943, a lean team tasked with completing America’s…
Inside Ingenuity With AeroVironment, Part I: Designing It
April 19th saw what some have christened “a second Wright Brothers moment”—namely, the successful first powered controlled flight by an…
Photonic Integrated Chip Drives High-Performance IMUs
KVH Industries introduced the P-1750 inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the P-1725 IMU to complement its previously released P-1775 IMU…
Base Protection Plus…
Easy Aerial and Travis Air Force Base pioneer automated drone-based military perimeter security. Located on the southwestern edge of California’s…
Sunflower Labs’ Autonomous Pivot
A high-end residential security provider expands into autonomous business surveillance. Early in 2020, Sunflower Labs’ launch at the Consumer Electronics…
Checking in on UAS Innovation
Lockheed Martin has fully embraced innovation across UAS and manned-unmanned systems and software.
Ultra-Precise, Ultra-Compact IMU for UAVs and Other Demanding Applications
Silicon Sensing has introduced a new ultra-precise, 9 degrees-of-freedom inertial measurement unit (IMU), the DMU41, delivering the performance of its…
Small INS Enhances UAV Surveys, Fusing Inertial and LiDAR data
Oxford Technical Solutions has released the xNAV650 inertial navigation system (INS), the company’s smallest and lightest INS to date. It…
Honeywell Developing Power Source for Hybrid-Electric Aircraft
Honeywell is working to develop a turbogenerator that runs on biofuel to power hybrid-electric aircraft—including heavy-lift cargo drones and air…
Northwest UAV, NRL Test Hydrogen Powered UAS Propulsion System
Northwest UAV (NWUAV) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) successfully completed preliminary operational testes for a hydrogen fuel cell…
LiquidPiston Adapting Its X-Engine Technology for United States Air Force UAS and Orbs
LiquidPiston recently received a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract from the United States Air Force to adapt its X-Engine…
Sensing Collaboration
To build its new U.S. headquarters, leading laser scanning company RIEGL enlisted major construction engineering company DPR. Both firms profited from working together.
