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

By Guest PostJanuary 22, 2013Scienceairborne payloads, electronic scanning, lightweight sensors, radar package, self guided uavs, sensing technology, uavs, unmanned aerial vehicle

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. (more…)

UAV-UGV Collaboration: GTRI Demonstrates at Army Robotics Rodeo How Autonomous Vehicles Work Together

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2010Technology, Weaponsalgorithm, autonomous collaboration, charles pippin, collaborative unmanned systems technology demonstrator, custd, falconview, georgia tech research institute, gtri, lora weiss, porsche cayenne, robotic technology, robotic vehicles, robotics rodeo 2010, signal- and data-processing, uavs, ugv, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicle, us army

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are poised to show the U.S. Army an advanced approach to enabling autonomous collaboration among dissimilar robotic vehicles. (more…)

Pentagon Officially Prepares for Laser War Against Mythical Enemy

By PravdaJuly 23, 2010Weapons32 mega watt laser beam, afghanistan, air show, airbase, anti-aircraft laser gun, boeing-747-400f, England, Farnborough, Hampshire, ivan tulyakov, mike booen, north korea, point mugu, pravda, raytheon missile systems, uavs

The world’s most respectable air show, which takes place once every two years not far from the town of Farnborough in England’s Hampshire, has brought a number of surprises. The presentation of the US-made anti-aircraft laser gun was one of them.

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

UAV-UGV Collaboration: GTRI Demonstrates at Army Robotics Rodeo How Autonomous Vehicles Work Together

Pentagon Officially Prepares for Laser War Against Mythical Enemy