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Optical sensors or drones are able to identify crop health across the field (for example, by using infrared light).

#Making drones more customizable A first-ever standard perating systemfor drones, developed by a startup with MIT roots, could soon help manufacturers easily design

Today, hundreds of companies worldwide are making drones for infrastructure inspection, crop-and livestock-monitoring,

and application-specific software to add to commercial drones for multiple purposes. The key component is the startup Linux-based autopilot device,

a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,

who researched and built drones throughout his time at MIT. To customize the drones customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators,

and communication devices configure settings, and apply their configuration to a fleet. Other software helps them plan

and monitor missions in real time (and make midflight adjustments), and collects and displays data. Airware then pushes all data to the cloud,

If a company decides to use a surveillance drone for crop management, for instance, it can easily add software that stitches together different images to determine which areas of a field are overwatered

Delta Drone in France is using the platform for open-air mining operations, search-and-rescue missions,

Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,

and infrastructure with drones that require specific cameras and sensors as potential early customers. A company from scratch Airware roots date to 2005,

Phd 3 to build drones for an intercollegiate competition. At the time, drones were used primarily for military surveillance,

powered by a lack boxthat could essentially fly the drones and control the camera. There were also a handful of open-source projects made by hobbyists that let people modify drones

but the code was tweaked unreliable when. f you wanted to do anything novel, your hands were tied,

Downey says. The group decision: build a drone from scratch. But their advisor, Jonathan How, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics who directs of the Aerospace Controls Laboratory,

told them that required too much time, and would cost them the competition. e said, oue right,

A five-year stretch at Boeing as an engineer for the U s. military A160 Hummingbird UAV and as a commercial pilot put Downey in contact with drone manufacturers, who,

Not much of the early MIT drone designs made it into the final Airware platform. ut building that early drone at MIT

the development of a standard operating system for drones is analogous to Intel processors and Microsoft DOS paving the way for personal computers in the 1980s.

without needing to know details of the underlying hardware. ee doing the same thing for the drone space,

Downey says. here are 600 companies building differing versions of drone hardware. We think they need the Intel processor of the drones,

if you will, and that operating system-level software component, too like the DOS for drones.

The benefits are far-reaching, Downey says: rone companies, for instance, want to build drones and tailor them for different applications without having to build everything from scratch,

he says. But companies developing cameras, sensors, and communication links for drones also stand to benefit,

he adds, as their components will need only to be compatible with a single platform. Additionally, it could help the Federal aviation administration (FAA) better assess the reliability of drones;

Congress recently tasked the agency with compiling UAV rules and regulations by 2015. This could also help promote commercial drone use in the United states,

which lags behind other countries around the world, primarily in Europe, Downey says. ather than see a world where there 500 drones flying overhead,

and every drone has different software and electronics, it good for the FAA if all of them had reliable and common hardware and software,

he says. e think it valuable for everybody. n

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#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.

The robot is a proof of concept part of#Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are possible

The drone is a tail-sitter taking off vertically with its body perpendicular to the ground.

For the drone it works fine and the design lets the wing fly fast like a plane.

It also means the drone can hover and that s where the delivery mechanism of Project Wing shines:

With the prototype in place the next challenge is creating an infrastructure for drones so that they can travel safely through skies without hitting other vehicles.

While the FAA clearly wants drones to sense and avoid other aircraft its been slow to implement changes

If the drone industry wants to change the world it ll need an FAA that lets it deliver.

Watch the drone in action below and read more about Project Wing at The Atlantic a

#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.

Better known by it's pop culture-inspired moniker, Greased Lightning, it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.

The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,

as well as demonstrating the drone at various NASA events throughout the year. More from Tomorrow Transforme e

#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,

The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot. Airware is out to change that with today launch of its Aerial Information Platform.

Ground Control Station for dispatching drones, and its cloud platform for customizing missions and collecting data.

the four year-old Airware is perhaps Silicon valley premier drone startup. Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,

survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.

Consumer drone makers are growing fast as quadcopters become the hot new toy for kids and adults alike.

China DJI is said to be raising money at a $10 billion valuation. But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone

It the way drones improve efficiency for heavy industry that could be the enduring moneymaker.

Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.

and a handful of reporters from San francisco to an isolated farm in Petaluma, where the startup showed off its platform with a variety of drones built for different use cases.

The company hoped to demonstrate how its system can be customized to let any drone do any job.

the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,

Rather than having to pre-program a drone, manually pilot it, and then painstakingly dump the data back to your servers,

The goal is to reduce the drone piloting expertise needed to get complicated missions flown.

enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case, and the data flows back automatically.

Operators can just trace a flight path on a map instead of driving the drone in real-time.

the startup had several of its biggest customers speak about their use of the platform in their own drones.

French drone company Delta Drone showed of its drone capabilities for surveying farmland and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station.

Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within and give it parameters like required altitude.

It wasn the flashiest demo wee ever seen with a drone after taking off it went to a set height

But commercial drone use isn supposed to be sexy. It supposed to get the job done safe, fast, and cheap.

After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.

replacing lifeguards at beaches with drones carrying floatation devices that can identify people in distress.

One of the new things shown off during these demos was support for fixed-wing drones,

Instead of requiring customers to build their own app with the exact drone interface needed, building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet

Essentially, third-parties will be able to develop plug-ins to let drones handle even more niche missions. Little Copters, Big Business This is

since theye mostly industrial or nterpriseclients who already have their own drones, there no need to offer a free tier just yet

Airware costs $2500 per drone per year. But the company doesn have to race to revenue just yet.

Drones are more than just war machines. Downey grew up the son of pilots, then built his own drones at MIT.

Now his company Airware is going to teach them to do our bidding, and even save some lives g

so that might be a future job for drones. If systems like GENESI become widespread, they could drastically improve city infrastructures,

as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,

NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,

Earlier this spring, NASA ENGINEERS flew the so-called GL-10 (the"GL"stands for"Greased Lightning")prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency's Langley Research center In virginia.

The 62-lb. 28 kilograms) drone can take off vertically like a helicopter, but in the air it flies more like an airplane.

Future versions of the drone could be used for a variety of applications, the researchers said."

"Over the course of five flight tests, the drone was able to take off and hover like a helicopter,

Now, the researchers are examining ways to make the drone more aerodynamically efficient, Fredericks said.

The GL-10 drone is the latest in a series of prototypes used to develop the concept.

NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.

NASA ENGINEERS will continue to tweak the design of the GL-10 drone, according to agency officials,

when they expect the drone could be ready for use in the field f

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#Sensors and drones: hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,

helping them to use less fertilizers and water, and to control the general condition of their crops.

and specialized in the use of drones for agriculture: They contribute to the early detection of diseases that affect grapevines,

This is made possible by drones which carry small cameras able to take near infrared images of crops.

because drones normally swing while flying. A software program builds a mosaic made up of hundreds of images,

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