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Paul Scharre on the Future of Drones

Published on Jan 14, 2015

20YY Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre discusses the use of unmanned vehicles and the evolution of drones in the U.S. military.

 

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Aerial Mapping with Quadcopters and Drones

Published on Jan 21, 2015

In the quadcopter space, Parrot may be best known for its AR.Drone and mini quads, but they're also behind two initiatives to use unmanned vehicles for aerial mapping. SenseFly and Pix4D are two departments making those vehicles and the 3D mapping software, and we learn about their latest quad at this year's CES.

 

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BioCarbon Engineering

Uploaded on Dec 1, 2014

Drones for Industrial Scale Reforestation

 

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"Drone Fight", Mark Martino, 2015, USA

Published on Feb 11, 2015

DRONE FIGHT is a high tech action comedy about two drones whose companies pit them against each other as a publicity stunt. Will they fight to the death or wise up?

This animation is a pre-visualization of the live action feature length movie. The animation was created to explore a few of the action sequences. The screenplay for the full length feature, which has quite a bit more humor and action, was written by Mark F. Martino and is available for interested producers.

 

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Article "Europe agrees on regulatory drone framework to move industry forward"

by Ben Fisher
March 28, 2015

 

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How to Launch a Quadrotor

Published on Mar 30, 2015

We demonstrate a new method to automatically recover and stabilize a drone from any initial condition, without GPS. On the one hand, this new technology will allow drones to be launched by simply tossing them in the air, like a “baseball”. On the other hand, it will make drones much safer since they can recover stable flight after a system failure. This is crucial for commercial use of drones, such as parcel delivery.

Our quadrotor is equipped with a single camera, an inertial measurement unit, and a distance sensor (Teraranger One). Since we use only onboard sensors and no GPS, the method works both indoors and outdoors.

Article "Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS"

by Matthias Fassler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Muggler, Christian Forster, Davide Scaramuzza
March 30, 2015

 

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Record

Published on Jun 9, 2015

 

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RFTC: Oregon Senate Bill 71 Bans FPV Flying and Other "Drones"

Published on Feb 4, 2013

In this emergency webcast, the Roswell Flight Test Crew alerts the community about Oregon Senate Bill 71, which seeks to regulate "drones," but which would criminalize all FPV flying -- and potentially all model aviation -- including consumer products like the Parrot AR Drone. This bill could damage Oregon's economic recovery by reducing sales at hobby shops, forcing manufacturers that produce drone aircraft for the United States military to shut down, as well as undermining the state's efforts to be selected as one of six drone test areas by the Federal Aviation Administration. It would also violate the constitutional rights of people who already own FPV systems, by making it a crime merely to possess such systems, without due process of law and in violation of their basic property rights.

 

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Eagle Kills Drone

Published on May 25, 2014

RMIT UAS Research team dogfights with the king of the skies, where nature exhibits aerial supremacy over drones!

The attacked Micro-Air-Vehicle airframe (Alula) was kindly donated by Dream-Flight for Research purposes. It was instrumented with an autopilot programmed to autonomously slope soar.

Many times have birds attacked micro-sized aircraft, but rarely carried away as prey!

 

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Published on Apr 11, 2014

I think the RC planes (they call them target drones) are my favorite part of the shoot at Big Sandy. These tiny planes zip back and forth along the 1/4 mile firing line and are an irresistible target for the shooters.

I'm sure to those who have never shot a machine gun outside of Call of Duty, it looks like it would be easy to shoot these down. The vital components of the plane like the engine, battery, receiver, fuel tank, etc. are very small. The main body of the plane is pretty tough and can take numerous hits without affecting it.

The pilot is very skilled and his defensive maneuvers make it very difficult for the gunners to predict where to lead the plane. I have no idea how the pilot can maintain orientation of the plane in the dark with tracers and fireworks all over the place.

This was filmed in Arizona at the Big Sandy Machine Gun shoot.
For more information on how to see this event yourself, which happens twice a year, check out their website.
http://mgshooters.com

 

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2015 Subaru WRX STI vs. The Drones, Grande Prairie Subaru

Published on Mar 27, 2014

The new generation 2015 Subaru WRX STI is engineered to perform. In this brand new course concept, power, precision and agility are put to the test as the WRX STI navigates through an autocross track made entirely of moving drone quadcopters. It's pure performance, pushed to the limit.

 

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Water Jet Thruster for Robotic Air Vehicle

Uploaded on Jul 1, 2015

“A Water Jet Thruster for an Aquatic Micro Air Vehicle,” by Robert Siddall and Mirko Kovac from Imperial College London, presented at ICRA 2015. Learn more:

"Novel Wings and Jet Thrusters for Swimming, Flying Robots"

by Evan Ackerman
July 1, 2015

 

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Published on Mar 9, 2014

At the end of last week, a federal court ruled in favor of flying commercial drones in the first case of its type. At SXSW, we speak with Brendann Schulman, the winning attorney on the case, about how it came about and what it means for the future of unmanned flight.

 

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Article "German railways to test anti-graffiti drones"

May 27, 2013

 

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Article "Anti-Drone Camouflage: What to Wear in Total Surveillance"

by Tim Maly
January 17, 2013

 

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Article "Can Drones Save the Planet?"

January 13, 2015

 

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Can a home drone kill you? This test with a chicken says maybe!

Published on Jul 25, 2015

Mythbusters' Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman demonstrate how a home drone can injure a human by pitting a rotor against a chicken.

"Can A Home Drone Kill You? The Mythbusters Test With A Chicken Says Yes"

by Andrew Liptak
July 25, 2015

Drone vs. neck high speed | MythBusters

Published on Jul 29, 2015

See in slow motion whether a drone’s fast spinning blades are just an accident waiting to happen.

Drone decapitation high speed

 

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Article "Hillview man arrested for shooting down drone; cites right to privacy"

by Ryan Cummings
July 30, 2015

 

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Article "Amazon proposes drones-only airspace to facilitate high-speed delivery"
The retail giant’s proposal carves out airspace from 200ft-400ft exclusively for autonomous drones, with a further 100ft above it declared a no-fly zone

by Ed Pilkington
July 28, 2015

 

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Flite Test | Glow Kite - Flying Cube

Published on Jul 29, 2015

In the past we've tried to make a box fly and failed miserably. At Joe Nall this year we ran into a father-son duo who hit the nail on the head!