On July 7, high-end UAV solutions company Microdrones and multinational conglomerate GE entered into a licensing partnership to provide powerful…
Engineering & Design
Mayflower Sets Sail, Turns Back After Minor Issue, Set to Try Again
Almost a year after The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) was originally scheduled to depart on its journey from Plymouth, England,…
Crysalis™ Offers Ground Control Simplicity, Interoperability to Frontline Combatants
In biology, a chrysalis marks a stage along a caterpillar’s transformation into a full-grown butterfly or moth. Now, AeroVironment is…
New GNSS/INS Positioning Family for Autonomy
Hexagon | NovAtel has introduced the PIM222A, part of a new family of GNSS positioning products for autonomy. The PIM222A…
Use Case: SwissDrones – It’s All in the Design
When conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions via drone, payload capacity, stability and endurance are critical—and all are areas…
Inside Ingenuity with AeroVironment Part III: The Meaning of Martian Flight
On Friday, May 7, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter left both Wright Brothers Field and the Perseverance Rover behind. Flying for…
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…
