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New Studies to Explore the Role of Drones in Disaster Preparedness and Response

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will be awarded a grant of $1.1 million of the grants worth $3.3 million awarded in the field of education, research, and training to universities that form part of Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

7 Aug 2020

AI Algorithms to Enable Autonomous Drones to Perform More Sophisticated Missions

Fatemeh Afghah, an associate professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, has received a $550,000 grant through the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program, one of the foundation's most prestigious awards.

28 Jul 2020

Drone Prototype Mimics the Maneuvers of World’s Fastest Bird

Swift is one of the world’s fastest birds. Now, an international group of aerospace engineers is developing a drone prototype that imitates the aerobatic maneuvers of this bird in the new example of biologically-inspired flight.

23 Jul 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Drones can Help Conserve Farmland Bird Species

Mechanical operations, like sowing and plowing, inadvertently destroy a huge number of ground-nests of farmland birds every spring.

15 Jul 2020

Researchers Use Drones to Calibrate the BMX Radio Telescope

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, cosmologists have been experimenting with a prototype radio telescope, known as the Baryon Mapping Experiment (BMX).

26 Jun 2020

New Framework to Route Delivery Drones over Ground Transit Networks

One-click purchases and instant delivery have helped fuel the growth of e-commerce, but this convenience has come at the cost of increased traffic congestion, longer commute times, and strained urban communities.

25 Jun 2020

New Drones-Based Project for Advanced Environmental Research

The new SeaBee project, funded by a NOK 60 million grant from the Research Council of Norway, is poised to help map the Norwegian coastline at a much more detailed level than ever before, while putting Norway at the forefront of drone research and monitoring infrastructure.

23 Jun 2020

New Scheme for Efficient Use of Drones in 5G Networks

Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) collaborated with researchers at Qatar University and Texas A&M University at Qatar to develop a framework for transferring data and energy to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), enabling the efficient use of drones in 5G networks.

22 Jun 2020

New Tool to Optimize Structural Configuration for Future Drones

Soon, the U.S. Army will be able to deploy autonomous air vehicles that can change shape during flight, according to new research presented at the AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition's virtual event June 16.

19 Jun 2020