Micro Air Vehicles ( Mavs )

Since the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s aircraft at Kitty Hawk, the development of new aircraft types and technology in these and existing aircraft has moved along at a quick and steady pace. Moreover, since 1903, aircraft limits continually have been pushed and surpassed. Aircraft now fly higher, faster, farther and carry more cargo or passengers than ever before. Nevertheless, it would only seem logical the next step in aviation evolution is removal of the human factor in flight. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have

Continuing on, Xymos, Julia’s company, has a contract in which they must produce airborne cameras and since large cameras are often shut down, they decide to make tiny micro-sized cameras. These cameras are designed to “swarm”

The Predator C, “Avenger” developed and built by General Atomics Aeronautical, is an upgraded version of its predecessors the MQ-1 and MQ-9 and is meant to support military operations well into the next decade. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney PW545B turbofan engine the Avenger is capable of speeds up to 400 knots true air speed (KTAS), and operational altitudes of up to 50,000 feet, well outpacing its predecessors (CITE). The Avenger has also been further optimized to reduce its Radar Cross Section (RCS), making it less detectable by enemy air defenses. Beyond its ability to out-fly the original Predator UAS, the Avenger is able to be equipped with a more capable and configurable sensors and weapons package. These advancements make the Predator C Avenger the most capable and universal hunter-killer type UAS

As college students, I hope that as you have gained a better understanding about ROVs, and what it is they actually do. Next time you see a movie, book, or even a TV show with pictures from space or the ocean you know exactly how we got them.

2. Fighter aircraft are classified into generations (gen). Currently the United States has the only combat ready fifth gen fighter, the F-22. The introduction of the F-35 will increase United States air dominance by providing stealth capabilities, integrated sensor information, and advanced network operations. This will allow the F-35 to act as a mobile command and attack center.1 The R&D that went into the JSF program not only created a new airframe, however other technologies including the Northrop Grumman’s Distributed Aperture System (DAS) which incorporates into Rockwell Collin’s helmet mounted display system (HMDS).2, 3 The DAS collects imagery data from six infrared cameras located around the airframe. This real time video allows the F-35 pilot to “see through” their aircraft. The DAS displays in the HMDS, the world’s most advanced display system that promises to increase the pilot’s situational awareness, tactical capability and mission effectiveness.4

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Recently, drones have been hovering over Croatia for paparrazi to get a glimpse of the production going on for the upcoming “Star Wars Episode VIII”. The drones were able to capture snippets of the Millenium Falcon and the new Rebel Alliance base being used on location until plans of shooting these drones down were announced. This entrepreneurial method, though stealthy, was short-lived.

Laurie Anderson once said, “Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories”. As we move into the new age of technology, we share more and more of our experiences and art with others. Quadcopters allow us to capture experiences on whole new levels not easily accessible before. They give us an aerial depiction of what we enjoy and what we want to show others. Quadcopter strengthen the bridge that brings physical experiences over to the virtual and endlessly sharable world. As with any technology, the quadcopter was made to make our lives easier in different respects. The purpose of this essay to share with you how quadcopters as a technology are changing our lives in the way we film, conduct warfare, and rescue others.

Equipped with razor sharp propeller and the ability to fly thousands of feet above the ground, drones have caused problems in the past and still are a risk to the general health of the public. Authors Rocci Luppicini and Arthur So write that “safety (21.24%) and law and regulation (25.66%) are the most frequently cited concerns in connection with commercial drone use. Once drones create the sense that lives are threatened when they are operating within a society, the immediate concern is drone safety” (p. 111). Although not the biggest concern, safety is still thought to be one of the bigger problems in regards to drones and it is a top priority that this issue is resolved. Firstly, it is not the case that drones are just death traps flying over our heads and it is certainly not the case that they are just going to fall on our heads; however, there are still many possible scenarios where drones can jeopardize our safety. Companies like DJI and GoPro are constantly working on making their drones better and safer but there is still room for human error and drones, like with all machines, can never be a hundred percent safe. One concern with drone safety is that they often cause a nuisance for aircrafts and air traffic controllers when the people operating the drones fly them too high. There have been several instances where plane pilots have had to avoid these small yet

UTM will add the benefits of beyond the visual line of sight operations (BVLOS) to unmanned aerospace systems. The added applications of beyond the visual line of sight operations are search and rescue operations, package deliveries, border patrol inspections, and environmental research (Karpowicz, 2016). The creators of Skylight believe the new UTM system will revolutionize UAS operations and drastically increase UAS applications (Karpowicz, 2016).

The Unmanned Aerial System can also loiter at a different speed presenting the opportunity of other aircraft to overtaking the UAS. Due to this ability, potential midair collision scenarios are numerous. Two critical technological functions will separate the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s architectures in the system. The vehicle’s ability to control the vehicle, survey and avoid must be addressed by the FAA to mitigate the risk of midair and ground collision factors. UAS technology can perform hovering functions and offers potential advantages of lethal or non-lethal weapons; Thermal infrared-visual EO sensors; video recorders, detectors, spectrometers, spectrophotometers; just to name a few. All of these items and then some could aid in

Because of the accurate transformation matrix we obtain through our approach, it is possible to overlay any geospatial feature, 3D model, or map content over the video frame. Features such as controlled airspace can be rendered as a semi-transparent 3D object in the sky. The data to be overlaid is rendered using the transformation matrix to a pixel buffer with a transparency channel. That buffer can then be overlaid on the actual video frame from the UAV and encoded back into a H.264 MPEG4 stream for display on any system

This provides the overall guidance to the architecture of the project along with details regarding the performance, design and interface. The drone helps in lessening human activity in media production, surveillance and other duties.

Abstract— The development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has increased at an incredible rate in recent years. The market currently includes many different varieties and classes of UAVs, but none currently offer long range beyond line of sight flight over cellular networks. The only existing networks currently utilized for long-range flight are i-Fi networks. However, flying over Wi-Fi has range limitations that restrict the full use of the UAVs. Therefore, the goal of this project is to design a UAV control system using existing cellular networks as the primary mode for communication. In order to accomplish this objective, an Android OS based application that is capable of sending and receiving signals between two Android smartphones will be designed. One of the phones will be on the UAV itself and the other in the hand of the pilot. Through these devices, the user will be able to control the UAV while also receiving critical information from the drone— such as Global Positioning System (GPS) location, live video feed, system statuses, and flight diagnostics from the UAV. A hardware interfacing circuit will be designed to interpret the control signals from the phone and pass them to the UAV for flight control. Additionally, a crash avoidance algorithm incorporating the position of other flying UAVs will be integrated into the system. This will provide a platform to reduce the number of user based crashes as well as reducing the risk of damaging a UAV.

Before diving into the specifics of what will be inspected on the small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) itself prior to flight, my organization will first research the forecast for the local weather. Considering the fact that my business will rely on Visual Flight Rules (VFR), we will need to know when we will be able to safely launch, fly, and recover our sUAS. After we have confirmed that our weather clearance minimums have been obtained we will move on to the sUAS itself.