Formation Flight of UAVs: Strategies, Challenges, and Applications for Operations in Complex Environments
Ignacio José Calomadre Heras, Francisco Milán Cabrera, Alberto Villarrubia de Juan, Miguel Ángel De Frutos Carro, UAV Navigation–Grupo Oesía Formation ...
Manufacturing Legacy Meets AAM Innovation
Michigan is merging its automotive heritage, geographic diversity, and educational capacity into a coordinated Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) strategy. A ...
Pathfinding Without GPS
Skyline Nav AI’s Vision for the Future of Autonomous Navigation Image: NASA For half a century, GPS has been the ...
Border Patrol: Detecting and Countering Threats
Drones carrying various sensors are being deployed globally to help secure borders and protect the agents who patrol them, while ...
From Warzones to First Response: Quantum’s ISR Evolution
Since its founding in Germany in 2015, Quantum Systems has steadily evolved from a commercial drone startup into a global ...
Air Meets Sea: Naviator Extends Hybrid Autonomy Across Domains
With seamless transitions from air to underwater and back, SubUAS’s Naviator platform offers a radically flexible architecture for defense, industrial ...
War of the Robots: The Battle for Avdiivka
The four-month-long Battle of Avdiivka (October 2023-February 2024) is one of the bloodiest battles of the 21st century to date ...
Detect and Avoid Goes Autonomous
Merlin Labs and MIT Lincoln Laboratory are partnering to integrate an autonomous pilot with Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) Xu, ...
Kraken and Capewell Partner for USV Air Deployment
Kraken have partnered with Capewell on the air deployment of their K3 SCOUT, significantly enhancing the USV platform’s operational advantage ...
Northern Plains UAS Test Site Successfully Oversees Kratos Trolley Launch System Test Flights
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has partnered with North Dakota entities to successfully conduct test flights of the Kratos ...
Intelligence as a Service: Up Close with TEKEVER
CEO Ricardo Mendes shares a compelling narrative of the firm’s airframes, software and Intelligence as a Service model, all of ...
Hover-Capable Underwater Robots Reveal the Ocean’s Secrets
When not discovering lost World War II submarines, veteran explorer Tim Taylor is developing a hovering autonomous vehicle and the ...
ISR and Security Trends: Small but Mighty
As ISR sensors become smaller and more sophisticated, they’re being deployed on unmanned platforms for a growing number of civil ...
Autonomous Operations: Up Close with Near Earth Autonomy
Near Earth Autonomy, based in Pittsburgh, has played a pioneering role adapting vertical lift aircraft—small and large alike—for autonomous operations ...
U.S. Army Forming Human-Machine Fighting Formations
Advancements in robotics, AI and autonomous systems continue to transform warfare. In response, the U.S. Army has embraced the concept ...
