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Flying Test Bed: New Aerial Platform Supports Development of Lightweight Sensors for UAVs

By Guest PostJanuary 22, 2013Scienceaerial test bed, airborne, airborne payloads, airborne sensors, airborne testing capability, autonomous flight, avoid detection, cell phone network, communications devices, cost effective way, electronic scanning, er aircraft, gauss, gauss uav, georgia tech, global positioning system, gps, griffon aerospace, griffon outlaw, ground mapping radar, gtri, high precision, lidar, light detection, michael brinkmann, mike heiges, multi channel, ranging, research institute, sensors, smaller aircraft, Technology, uav, unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned sensor system, warren lee, x band

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing an airborne testing capability for sensors, communications devices and other airborne payloads. This aerial test bed, called the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS), is based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by Griffon Aerospace and modified by GTRI.

“Developing new sensor technologies that can be effectively employed from the air is a priority today given the rapidly increasing use of unmanned aircraft,” said Michael Brinkmann, a GTRI principal research engineer who is leading the work. “Given suitable technology, small UAVs can perform complex, low-altitude missions effectively and at lower cost. The GAUSS system gives GTRI and its customers the ability to develop and test new airborne payloads in a rapid, cost effective way.” (more…)

Greg Landsberg: Seeking the Higgs boson

By Guest PostJune 29, 2012Scienceamerican group, brown, CERN, cms, compact muon solenoid, data, david cutts, david orenstein, electromagnetic interaction, electroweak force, electroweak symmetry breaking, fermilab, gerald guralnik, greg landsberg, higgs, higgs boson, higgs field, higgs mechanism, higgs signal, high precision, lack of sleep, Large Hadron Collider, meenakshi narain, megapixel camera, particle, phenomenon, photon, professor of physics, skype, standard model, statistical significance, switzerland, ultich heintz, universe, z bosons

Greg Landsberg, professor of physics at Brown, is the physics coordinator for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at CERN in Switzerland, part of a Brown team that includes professors David Cutts, Ultich Heintz, and Meenakshi Narain. The giant instrument’s primary mission is finding the Higgs boson, a particle whose existence would confirm the best guess physicists have made about why things have mass.

On July 4, Landsberg and his colleagues will reveal the latest results of their search. Anything could happen when Greg Landsberg and, including an announcement that the Higgs has been found or that it has been ruled out, sending theorists back to the whiteboard. Landsberg spoke by Skype with science news officer David Orenstein on June 26 as CERN physicists were preparing for their press conference. (more…)

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Flying Test Bed: New Aerial Platform Supports Development of Lightweight Sensors for UAVs

Greg Landsberg: Seeking the Higgs boson