The fin had been pulled from storage where it had been sitting deflated since test flights several months before.
While typical wind turbines of similar scale require a large crew and several days to install the BAT is ready to fly
and a combination of permafrost and snowed-in roads complicates the installation of standard wind turbines.
So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.
While bringing Internet connectivity to unconnected parts of the world should be a good enough move for public relations Facebook also joined the ongoing war against calling unmanned aircraft drones:
#U s army Wants A Parachuting Tank After years of service in wars--from Iraq to Afghanistan to Iraq again--the Humvee is on its way out.
Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.
It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in
or out and the vehicle should drive for at least 250 miles at full weight while also being able to survive a rollover.
The Army also wants it to drive cross-country primary road secondary road and urban rubble during both day and night missions.
In essence the ULCV should get a squad into the fight right off the helicopter over unpaved ground
Lastly the Army is also looking at a light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) also carried by Chinook helicopters both inside and underneath.
A tall van blocked the view of a traffic light but the V2i system onboard Stella alerted the driver to the red light before anyone in the car could see it.
As of July Stella has a permanent license plate and permission to drive on public roads s
while Spacex will receive $2. 6 billion to create an upgraded rendition of its Dragon spacecraft aptly named Dragon Version 2. The original Dragon is currently being used to ferry cargo from Earth to the ISS.
The partnership is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program which was established in 2010 to foster the development of a U s. commercial crew space transportation capability.
The idea was to make trips to space both safe and cost effective and private companies have demonstrated for some time that they can send rockets to space for a fraction of the cost.
As state officials have monitored the robot car's mileage on public roads Google has lobbied for the car to get different tests
what situations it will ask for help from its human driver. For the Guardian Harris wrote about how Google has asked regulators to allow the results of computerized driving simulations#to stand in for tests on driving tracks
or closed-off roads. For Quartz Harris reported on Google's lobbying not to have to report#how often its cars turn over the controls to their human drivers
as long as the handover occurs as expected. The car is designed to routinely cede control when it encounters situations it can't handle.
when construction crews run into unexpected problems or when contractors underestimate the labor and resources they'll need to get a job done.
It's also able to project arrows or lane markers onto the road. It can sense upcoming street signs
#Pentagon Wants Artificial intelligence In Future Fighters The Department of defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed.
which is designed to outfight any other plane in the sky. However the Raptor is expensive to produce
Adding AI could free the pilot's mind to focus more on fewer tasks giving them a cognitive advantage in battle.
It s based on aircraft carriers which are notoriously challenging to land on. The Navy s own X-47b experimental drone has landed on an aircraft carrier successfully
and autonomously so adding a computer copilot to a naval craft could help there too.
Bringing the artificial intelligence inside the cockpit is one major way robots will fly alongside humans in fighters of the future--but it s not the only one.
Last month the Navy s X-47b flew in formation with the F/A-18 Super hornet with robots
By the 2030s humans with robot copilots could fly alongside robots remotely controlled by humans u
It s a type of Vertical Takeoff or Landing (VTOL) rarely done with humans on board because#that transition from vertical to horizontal and back again is difficult for onboard human pilots to manage.
For the drone it works fine and the design lets the wing fly fast like a plane.
Cars on roads travel in close proximity and only move in two dimensions. Aircraft operate in vast empty skies
and do so on three axes. Training a car to sense and avoid other cars#is simpler than doing the same for an aircraft.
Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.
and avoid other aircraft its been slow to implement changes and create a regulatory framework that lets innovation like this happen stateside.
But maybe a simple parachute could slow them down enough for a safe landing Sunspiral says.
and its cargo is loaded unloaded or lost its center of mass changes and the thrusters no longer operate in harmony
Pilots who neglect to properly stow cargo risk having it bounce free during evasive maneuvers potentially injuring crew
Tempted to take on extra cargo to pad profits? That might strain the ship s components. 2011 Developers begin building Star Citizen in secret revealing just enough details to entice investors. 10/10/12 Crowdfunding campaign begins
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Yesterday the U s. Navy announced the first successful manned & unmanned aircraft flight operations of its experimental X-47b drone.
The tests were performed#aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.##The exercise was operationally simple: the unmanned X-47b took off from the carrier's deck followed by a manned#F/A-18 Hornet.
but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.
It's#similar#to#the#challenge#of#making sure#driverless cars can safely avoid cars with human drivers
but doing so at high speeds in three dimensions on a rocking platform in the middle of the ocean with airplanes worth millions of dollars The X-47b#has earned a pair of nicknames:#
Unlike most drones which have a pilot dictating their every move#by remote control the X-47b is largely autonomous calculating its flight paths.
Last summer the X-47b#successfully landed on an aircraft carrier#twice. It aborted a#third landing
but it did so to avoid crashing into the aircraft carrier and safely landed on an airstrip elsewhere.)
Here's a short video from the Department of defense showing some of the X-47b's latest flights
and furnished with stadium-seating for its two crew members, the Advanced High performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft (AHRLAC) looks like an alternate history version of a World war i fighter.
The result of a collaboration between South africa's Aerosud aviation firm and the Paramount Group, the AHRLAC is designed as a cheap alternative to the big name in military surveillance right now:
drones. The AHRLAC is designed for flexible roles, depending on how it's equipped. These range from surveillance to light attack,
The pusher propeller design--in which the propellers are mounted behind their respective engines--helps the plane fly slowly, an important task for surveillance aircraft.
The manufacturers boast that AHRLAC is the"first ever aircraft to be designed fully and developed in Africa,
quieter direction when it introduced Project Livewire, its first battery-powered bike. The Livewire has a lightweight aluminum frame rather than the classic tubular-steel version,
Several niche companies have marketed electric bikes over the past few years but Harley entry into the market is telling.
the company will sell the bike, or some version of it move that could shape the industry for years to come.
and enables semi-autonomous driving on highways. 4) Honda has started using 3-D visualization technology co-developed with tech firm 3dx CITE for crash simulations.
#Russia Orders Helicopters For Its New Amphibious assault Ships Russia recently ordered a batch of new attack helicopters,
and around 30 light helicopters within landing distance of a coast, where they will (in peaceful situations) arrive
It's likely each of the four ships would only fly eight attack helicopters so the full order for 32 indicates that Russia expects full delivery of the ships.
what military use the Mistral would add to the war in Ukraine, even with the planned Ka-52k helicopters.
Regardless of actual military utility, the international community is excited less about the sale, especially after Russia's seizure of Crimea and Moscow's ongoing support for the separatists that shot down a Malaysian airliner.
in addition to reducing the annual carnage on American and European highways, this system could prove useful in reducing similar accidents in heavy industries like mining as well,
and testing in the areas of robotics space exploration aviation and other technologies NASA said in a press release.
Once renovations are complete Hangar One will again be home to high-tech innovation as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research development assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration aviation rover
The elevons were used successfully for numerous flights with a hand launch and a ground landing (landing is a particularly dangerous time for hardware).
#Antares orb-3 accident A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday.
The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS exploded a few seconds after its launch from NASA's Wallops flight facilities.
(along with Spacex) under contract from NASA for supplying the International Space station with cargo supplies and secondary experimental and commercial ISS payload.
As stated by NASA's press conference the flight termination system was activated. This is a remote manual intervention that initiates a self-destruction mechanism
and the video below (shot from a small airplane from a distance) the explosion was huge.
The Cygnus cargo vehicle destroyed on this accident was carrying a lot of small satellites owned by schools universities and startups.
and 6 degrees of freedom and can run in the sagittal plane at 4. 2 km h.
and actuation could be applied to various types of high-speed intelligent systems including high-speed robots manufacturing systems aircraft microscope image control for bio/medical applications and human-machine
Wave Gliderthe Wave Glider is an autonomous environmentally-friendly oceangoing vehicle developed by Liquid Robotics.
and is equipped with computers for navigation and a satellite communication system. Three Wave Gliders have been deployed for this project.
Slocum Gliderthe Slocum Glider built by Teledyne Webb Research is a high-endurance vehicle equipped with a variety of sensors.
It can operate at depths of 1000 metres and can remain at sea for months at a time while transmitting data back to shore.
Two gliders are used in the NOC project and have been customized in order to cope with the demanding marine environment and to record different type of data.
The ability for machines to tap into multiple online data sources and services allows them to quickly stitch together value reducing time
and their battery life only allows for short flights. To increase the range of a small UAV one idea is to pair it with an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that can carry it to a site of operation and transport heavier cargo.
Having both ground and aerial perspectives can also be useful during a mission. One challenge is to make sure the vehicles have the ability to rendezvous
It broadcasts onto it. http://player. vimeo. com/video/98604521our proof of concept build uses a modified DJI F550 Flamewheel kit gets twelve minutes flight time and features its own
We are already working on more sophisticated features including live streaming data gimbal integration ultrasonic sound capabilities and improved flight time.
Overall automotive patents make up around one third of the total not including other types of vehicles such as trucks buses agricultural machinery aircraft and aerospace/defence.
Covering manufacturing agriculture health transport civil security and households the initiative#calledâ SPARCÂ#is the EU#s industrial policy effort to strengthen Europe#s position in the global
or brake pedals#and you can ride it strictly as a passenger which is probably a strange feeling but according to Google video not entirely unpleasant.
and above it the whole front panel is made of foam so the car is not only safe for its passengers but for pedestrians as well.
If you completely eliminate any kind of input from the occupants (apart from the destination selection) then anyone on board is defined strictly as a passenger
The prototypes released on public roads will have manual controls for obvious legal reasons but the goal of this project is to learn
Should a medical incident arise in space that human crew members are unable to deal with themselves the robo-doc will be there to save the day.
Masan Robot Land project finally breaks ground With permission finally given to occupy lands that include an existing road
1. 3 trillion won will also be invested in the expansion National Route No. 5 the highway that will connect Robot Land to the tourism complex as well as a new road between Geoje
and Masan. 400 billion won is secured already for the National Route No. 5 project next year.
It is hoped also that the Masan project will accelerate the construction project of National Route No. 5
and uses three slightly modified bicycle brakes instead of the metal barriers used in the previous version.
Deutsche Post DHL Germany'#express delivery and mail company is working with German UAV provider microdrones Gmbh to test various methods of flight (piloted or autonomous) types and weights
#Honda automatic driverless valet parking system Honda has developed a low-cost automatic valet parking system that uses parking lot surveillance cameras to help park cars automatically.
In this demonstration when a car is left in the drop-off area of a parking lot it receives information about
if it is implemented in the large parking lots of suburban shopping centers. f a store introduces this system customers can drop their car off in front of the store
and the car will go to a parking space automatically in cooperation with the parking lot. Then when customers come out with all their shopping they can just wait in front of the store
and parking lot management systems and develop ways to operate them smoothly. Honda believe that this system could be practical by or before 2020 y
and aerial photography leading the way as consumer and small business verticals. What next? Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.
#Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry,
which are filled with seawater to compensate for weight changes as cargo is loaded and unloaded. Located between the outer hull and the cargo holds
and consisting of beams and stiffeners separated by bulkheads ballast tanks form much of a ship#s supporting structure.
I-profiles presents a significant navigation challenge for any robotic inspection system. A few prototypes have been developed to date
The second system is a wireless video transmitter for the Gopro camera that is often used in model airplanes.
#The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight he whole is greater than the sum of its partsâ##a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array:
a modular robotâ consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take on just about any shape or form.
Although each unit is capable of generating enough thrust to lift itself off the ground on its own it is incapable of flight much like a helicopter cannot fly without its tail rotor.
However when joined together these units evolve into a sophisticated multi-rotor system capable of coordinated flight and much more.
otherwise be impossible to achieve on its own â##flight. This modular flying vehicle would then break apart in the air
1) docking (2) coordinated ground mobility and (3) coordinated flight. In accomplishing each of these tasks we would in turn validate our model
and to demonstrate coordinated flight in several configurations. Our goals were too ambitious under the framework of this class
in order to make the vehicle lighter for flight. Its primary limitation however was its inability to demonstrate coordinated mobility for randomly assembled configurations.
We opted instead for constructing the chassis out of laser-cut acetal plastic a higher-powered flight motor and a new propeller.
and thrust generation unit (i e. propeller and flight motor) from scratch but kept most of the power and control electronics the same.
The new flight motor and propeller was tested to ensure that it produced a sufficient amount of thrust
and constructed six complete units for flight. In this revision we demonstrated coordinated flight for a variety of configurations.
The flight controller was computed ahead of time and sent wirelessly to each unit prior to flight. Knowing that the chassis
and thrust generation unit was sound we then went ahead and integrated driving capabilities and intercommunication into the units.
To successfully accomplish this the flight control strategy must minimize the shear forces occuring between interconnected units during flight.
but the most striking feature of the Distributed Flight Array is its ability to fly in an unlimited number of configurations.
What is most surprising is that the units themselves do need not necessarily to communicate with one another during flight.
The only information that a unit needs for flight is its local sensor data and its position with respect to the vehicle centre of mass.
We instead developed a means for automatically computing the tuning parameters for any flight-feasible configuration of the vehicle that would result in best flight performance.
The Distributed Flight Array is currently being used at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich as a modular robotics platform for investigating algorithms in distributed estimation and control.
and a whole crew of Phd and Master students to develop the infrastructure and algorithms that make this demonstration possible
and TED Global is not the first time it has taken to the road: In 2011 they set up at the FRAC Centre in Orlã ans France to create a six metre-high tower the first architectural installation built by flying machines (see video.
 t boils down to fifteen cases boxes and bagssaysâ Dario Brescianinini another member of the crew.
It was a busy set with fifteen TED crew members seven people from Dndrea team and one photographer.
We had studied already the use of motion-based cues in navigation, such as optic flow and the size changes of visually salient features like SURF,
if the appearance of visual features could be used to aid navigation as well. To this end
and to process the images after the flight. This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table
making it ideal for navigating crowded environments like tradeshows, restaurants, offices and airports. It easy to imagine it one day being used to unobtrusively serve drinks at a cocktail event,
Rezero could even one day rival the Segway as a personal transportation device. Rezero agility comes from a propulsion
#First autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance Based on the following press release, irobot,
RP-VITA is the first autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance. RP-VITA is a joint effort between two industry leaders, irobot and Intouch Health.
The robot combines the latest in autonomous navigation and mobility technologies developed by irobot with state-of-the-art telemedicine
The world's first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co. Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R c model toys such as helicopters
& aeroplanes that are certified to CE UL and FCC standards. The Walkera Infra X Smart Drone with Crash Avoidance System (CAS) contains a total of 10 sensors 2 Ultrasonic Altitude Sensors on the belly of the drone 8 Infrared Sensors
For traditional radio frequency helicopters in same frequency cannot fly together because of interference. With 2. 4ghz radio system many helicopters can fly at the same time without interference.
Mind-controlled quadrotor dronemind controlled drones are a hot area for researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzou China who have adapted a Parrot AR Drone 2. 0 to be operated by an Emotiv EPOC
By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off; thinking left right and push makes it turn clockwise move forward
in order to maintain flight, but this makes it difficult for them to fit into smaller spaces.
the team had to first designate the primary mode of locomotion in this case flight, as the DALER will cover the longest distances this way.
so as to satisfy the constraints of both ground locomotion and flight. The best shape found for these wingerons is a triangular one.
Flight maneuverability requires rapid wingeron movements and low torque, whereas walking requires the opposite conditions.
while not compromising flight maneuverability. A second issue in creating a fixed wing drone capable of walking on the ground is with the morphology, thanks to the different centre of mass requirements for the two modes of locomotion.
Supervised traffic jam assist After a short day looking at robocars at CES a more full day was full of the usual equipment cameras TVS audio and the like and visits to several car booths.
Lots of people were making demonstrations of traffic jam assist at CES simple self-driving at low speeds among other cars.
All the demos were supervised of a traffic jam assist. This style of product (as well as supervised highway cruising) is the first thing that car companies are delivering (though they are also delivering various parking assist
and valet parking systems). This makes sense as it an easy problem to solve. So easy in fact that many of them now admit they are working on making a real traffic jam assist
which will drive the jam for you while you do e-mail or read a book.
This is a readily solvable problem today you really just have to follow the other cars
and you are going slow enough that short of a catastrophic error like going full throttle you aren going to hurt people no matter what you do at least on a highway where there are no pedestrians or cyclists.
As such a full auto traffic jam assist should be the first product we see form car companies.
It a shame because frankly the supervised cruise and traffic jam assist products are just in the leasant extra featurecategory.
The Delphi car a modified Audi SUV has no fewer than 6 4-plane LIDARS and an even larger number of radars.
which is need what you for dealing with intersections where cross traffic doesn stop and for changing lanes at high speed.
but is also able to fly horizontally like a fixed-wing airplane. Following field tests, however, Google scrapped the design,
For fast forward flight, the vehicle tilts to a near-horizontal orientation, resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design.
hover-capable aircraft such as tiltrotors and tiltwings, the major advantage of a tailsitter is its mechanical simplicity:
A Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit (FMU) runs the onboard control loop that tracks the desired body rates using a rate gyroscope
Robbe Mini Wing RC styrofoam airframe Electronics: Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit Battery: Thunder Power RC G6 Pro Lite 25c Lipo 350mah 2s Motors:
Hacker A05-13s Motor controllers: ZTW Spider 12a ESCS with Simonk firmware Propellers: 5×3 GWS EP-5030 Flap servos:
Senegal Minister of Energy and Development of Renewable energies. e can resolve it without financing solutions to transportation and distribution issues.
and to demonstrate that the new viruses were indeed making use of quantum coherence to enhance the transport of excitons. t was really fun,
"Keep the Videos Topical Maris offered several tips to others who may decide to go this route in creating videos.
including unmanned air vehicles (UAVS) due to the capability to disappear from view and leaving no visual,
and vet potential participants for the train and equip program. As we review the program,
airways and collapsed lungs. Now a new ARA software program funded in part by the Army intends to significantly advance that training via a downloadable hysiology enginethat allows medical personnel see how their actions affect every other aspect of their patient physiology.
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
It has a tilt-wing design that allows for vertical takeoff and landing--similar to existing tiltrotor aircraft like the Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey."
"said Zach Johns, the prototype's main pilot.""The four engines on the right wing also work in concert.
"Successful flight tests have not only demonstrated its hovering capabilities during its vertical takeoff--the way a helicopter does
"During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing-borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.
So far we have done this on five flights, "said Bill Fredericks, one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release."
Now we're working on our second goal--to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter."
what we are testing now--would make also a great one to four person size personal air vehicle."
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