Monthly Archives: September 2012

• Homogeneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) – Georgia Research Tech Institute

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Spotlight on Programs, STEM Education and Learning.

  GTRI researchers are building multiple small UUVs for homogeneous collaborative operations. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have demonstrated an excellent capability to collect valuable data for commercial, scientific, and military purposes. Read the full article.

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• Collaborative Unmanned Systems Technology Demonstrator (CUSTD) – Georgia Research Tech Institute

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Spotlight on Programs, STEM Education and Learning.

  GTRI has developed an unmanned systems platform for performing collaborative autonomy research. The primary research aim of this platform is to explore distributed, collaborative, autonomy algorithms for controlling multiple unmanned systems vehicles. Read the full article.

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• Embry-Riddle shines with drone program – Daytona Beach News Journal

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Spotlight on Programs, STEM Education and Learning.

  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is making its mark again, this time by boldly stepping into the emerging science of drone flights. Embry-Riddle is increasing its research and development regarding unmanned planes. Read the full article.

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• In the Arctic, drones could close the gap – The Globe and Mail

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  A high-flying, long-endurance pilotless drone – dubbed the Polar Hawk – might fill Canada’s gaping hole in its ability to monitor what’s going on in the Arctic. With a rapidly receding summer ice cap igniting a new rush to find, stake and exploit Arctic resources, and with ship traffic projected to rise dramatically through the [...]

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• Eye in the sky filming our rubbish shame – News.com.au

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  Researchers from the nation’s primary science agency are circumnavigating the continent, their goal to document human trash and other crud on the beaches with help of a little drone. Date to help estimate environmental impact on marine life. Describes what they are doing, not much about the twin-nacelle, four-rotor bird they’re using. Read the full [...]

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• UAF researchers use drones to evaluate sea ice thickness at Nome and aid incoming tanker – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  An episode during the adventure last winter at Nome, where packed sea ice left the town so low on fuel oil, that an emergency shipment via Russian tanker with a US Coast Guard icebreaker escort became necessary. The operators were from a University of Alaska team that routinely uses drones for research and to monitor [...]

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• RoboJelly, The Unmanned Underwater Vehicle That Uses Water For Fuel – Singularity Hub

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  These are the kinds of jellyfish you don’t need to be afraid of. They look and swim like jellyfish, but they’re actually water-dwelling fuel cells attached to an artificial muscle, and they might just be the answer to a powerful and cheap way to monitor the world’s oceans. Read the full article.

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• 20,000 colleagues under the sea – The Economist

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  Sailing the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea gliders are small unmanned vessels which are now cruising the briny by the hundred. They use a minuscule amount of power, so they can stay out for months. And, being submarines, they are rarely troubled by the vicissitudes of weather [...]

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• Unmanned Drones to Fly Into Hurricanes in August – AGU Blogosphere

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  The use of unmanned drones has been a very controversial political issue in recent months, but NOAA (NASA is funding the experiment) is planning to use them in a very useful (and non-controversial) way. They will be flying a bunch of complex instruments into hurricanes in August and September over the next 3 years. Read [...]

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• Drones being tested to track fish, wildlife – Spokesman-Review

  Posted on September 6, 2012 by AUVSI in Environmental Protection, Spotlight on Programs.

  Idaho Power Co. fish biologist Phil Groves doesn’t want to see any more of his colleagues injured or killed in helicopter crashes while doing research. So he has embraced technology typically used by the military and hobbyists: drone aircraft. Read the full article.

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