#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
and is equipped with computers for navigation and a satellite communication system. Three Wave Gliders have been deployed for this project.
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
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
#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 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.
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."
water comes through--in your basements, in a parking garage. Secondly, if this water gets to the steel reinforcements--in concrete we have all these steel rebars
#Scientists grow monkey arms in the lab But that's not the end of the road for this arm.
"Drones have a lot of potential to further connect our vast network of stores, distribution centers, fulfillment centers and transportation fleet,
Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International airport, the main entry point for flights bringing in international aid since the April quake, was closed anew Tuesday as a precaution.
People could be seen frantically calling their families as medical attendants rushed to set up tents in the parking lot.
#Google Self-driving cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
and hit public roads in California, in a step forward for its autonomous automobile program. The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
and hit the familiar roads of Mountain view, California, with our safety drivers aboard,"said project chief Chris Urmson in a blog post."
But in the future, charging an electric vehicle may require nothing more than driving and parking. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind energy and Energy system Technology IWES in Kassel, Germany, have developed a wireless charger system that not only recharges a battery but also feeds excess energy back into the electrical grid.
one built into the road, parking space or garage and the other fitted to the underside of electric car.
With this system in place, energy can be transmitted without a plug and entirely through the air or as researchers explain in more depth, hrough a time-varying magnetic field.
Scientists in the UK, for example, are developing electric highways to charge electric cars. However, unlike other options, this coil system from Fraunhofer Institute can also discharge the electricity stored in a vehicle battery
#Helicopter's Robotic Legs Help Stick Tricky Landings Helicopters of the future could use insectlike robotic legs to land in unlikely places like the slopes of steep hills
Touching down on uneven surfaces is something that today's helicopters are equipped just not to do, according to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency,
But robotic landing gear developed for DARPA at the Georgia Institute of technology (Georgia Tech) could better equip these aircraft to land just about anywhere.
The new landing gear features four robotic legs with bendable"knees"that turn a normal helicopter into
the legs automatically move to stabilize the aircraft, according to DARPA officials, who recently tested out the new system near the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta."
unmanned helicopter successfully demonstrated the ability to land and take off from terrain that would be impossible to operate from with standard landing gear,"Ashish Bagai,
DARPA program manager, said in a statement. Embedded with force-sensitive contact sensors on each of its feet,
the robotic legs determine the precise angle they need to assume to keep the helicopter from tipping over
what Bagai referred to as"standard landing gear, "which typically features either retractable wheels or fixed skids (the ski-type beams sometimes seen under the fuselage of a helicopter).
Neither of these options works well on uneven terrain, which is unfortunate, because helicopters often need to land
and take off in areas like disaster zones, where there may not be any flat surfaces, according to DARPA.
The robo-insect landing gear can handle landings on irregular terrain, even if there are significant obstacles in the way,
And besides making landings more versatile, the jointed legs also significantly reduce the damage inflicted on helicopters during"hard landings,"according to DARPA.
The agency said these improved capabilities can"greatly expand"the effectiveness of helicopters used for both military and nonmilitary purposes u
Several Prep studies similarly have shown that ARVS protect uninfected people regardless of the route of transmission.
The bispecific antibody first binds to CD3 on cells that harbor latent HIV. This prompts the cells to divide, an ctivationprocess that wakes up the sleeping virus. New HIV proteins are produced subsequently that migrate to the surface of the cell.
Similar research into how the related Plasmodium pathogen performs this trick had identified a so-called rotein export complexthat transports encoded proteins from the parasite into its host red blood cell,
and so we went back to look at this longstanding phenomenon of nutrient transport, Gold says. When they added dyes to the host cell,
suggesting that this small-molecule transport function had been restored. ll of this came together to strongly suggest that this protein that is involved in protein export in Plasmodium may also have an additional function in small-molecule transport,
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
in collaboration with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, involving a jet engine air inlet that traditionally causes drag during flight.
and avoid the need for pilots to control it. Designing for transformation on demand In self-assembly, independent components come together to build a final structure completely on their own,
as well as operations and maintenance jobs in resource extraction and fuel transportation. Data for solar and wind generator operations and maintenance jobs were provided by the industries themselves.
Uber is present in some 200 cities and 54 countries, amid rising frictions with traditional taxi services.*
Airbnb is seen as a threat to the hotel sector similar to Uber's menace to the taxi industry.
and founder of Geniphys, has worked for more than 10 years to tap into the secrets of the extracellular matrix component of tissues.
the calculator crawls the user's channel to tally viewership of noncaptioned videos and, based on that data, estimates the boost in traffic and search-engine optimization,
involves improving the transport of oxygen ions, a key component in converting chemical reactions into electricity.
"This built in charge serves as a barrier for ion transport at the interface. The challenge is how to effectively avoid the segregation of Gd in the grain boundary.
System-level inspectionsssential for lenders and insurers Assuring solar modules will last for decades Work by Namaste Solar installing PV modules on the roof of the parking structure on NREL's South Table
an airplane flyover that falls far short of capturing the detailed images needed to identify a potential problem."
Tablets have made appearances in airports, where travelers can have delivered food to where they sit, but are limited still in the traditional restaurant scene.
"In a way we kicked a can down the road because we still do not have sufficient precision to know where to look for the really,
A project of CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, the 17-mile LHC tunnel big enough to ride a bicycle through straddles the border between France and Switzerland.
and twist samples of the composite materials used to build F/A-18s and other aircraft.
"he says,"for the skin of the plane.""It's a sample of advanced composite,
the median age of today's active aircraft is 22-23 years old. As F/A-18s continue to age beyond their design life cycle,
NRL's robot could help get aircraft from factory to fleet faster. NRL66. 3 robot applies,
Computations from robot data predict how materials behave in aircraft A snapped composite specimen is one thing;
forcing Pemex to stop shipping finished fuel through its pipelines after discovering 3, 674 illegal taps last year.
when an illegal tap caused a blast that killed 29 people in the central town of San martin Texmelucan.
and their transportation, assembly and disassembly so the construction company can calculate the total cost of the building."
of big-name debuts including Cafe Coffee Day and airline Indigo. Shares hit their lowest level in about a year last week,
Interglobe Aviation, which runs the Indigo airline, is seeking a $400 million listing. Analysts warn more uncertainty is given in store the US Federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates as early as September,
raising the prospect of continued outflows from emerging markets. The Nifty is down 14.5 per cent
800 sq ft space at Linking Road, Santacruz. Moreover, Lenskart, an Indian eyewear brand that started online,
Khazendar team used data on ice surface elevations and bedrock depths from instrumented aircraft participating in NASA Operation Icebridge,
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
the cells that line the airways in the lungs are shaped unusually and cramble around like there a fire drill going on.
Until now, scientists thought that epithelial cells which line not only the lung airways but major cavities of the body and most organs just sat there motionless,
or cars jammed in traffic, said Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard Chan School and one of the senior authors of the study,
The physics of biologythe researchers decided to look at the detailed shape and movement of cells from the asthmatic airway because, according to Fredberg,
the researchers placed layers of epithelial cells from either normal airways or asthmatic airways on a soft gel surface that simulated the degree of stiffness of the lung.
Next stepsnow that it known that epithelial cells in asthmatic airways are shaped oddly and not jammed,
njamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium, Nature Materials (2015; doi: 10.1038/nmat4357source:
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