unmanned aerial vehicles

The United States Air Force has released a request for proposal (RFP) for a...

An MIT researcher built a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, or drone) that can fly itself while avoiding obstacles in its path. Andrew Barry, a PhD student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), says, “Everyone is building drones these days, but nobody knows how to get them to stop running into things.” Popular recreational drones can’t fly themselves because the required equipment, such as Lidar sensors, are too big to fit on their small frames. To get around this, Barry came up with an efficient algorithm that saves time and space by processing only the necessary information.

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While there are many endless possibilities for commercial drones—from agricultural to public safety and...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been slow to regulate the use of drones...

Two different groups of researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio have...

Three patents have been filed with the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office by...

N.C. State University and its transportation research centers are working to make North Carolina...