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A Middleware Architecture for Unmanned Aircraft Avionics
White Papers An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Solar-powered planes for 3G and broadband
News A US-based technology firm is planning to launch unmanned solar-powered aeroplanes that would provide broadband Internet access and 3G mobile services to whole cities from 70,000 feet above the ground.
[July 23, 2002, 14:50]
Robot race draws crowd
News The agency wants one third of all combat vehicles to be able to operate unmanned by 2015, said Don Shipley, a spokesman for the DARPA Grand Challenge, earlier this year. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency said on Thursday that 106 teams...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
MoD announces winner of robot challenge
News Stellar's Saturn unmanned ground vehicle works with two other types of unmanned aerial vehicle to gather data about the battlefield from a variety of perspectives. Stellar Research has designed a system that relies on three separate, autonomous...
[August 22, 2008, 8:59]
Innovative tech at Cambridge open day
News Pictured is the prototype unmanned flying saucer hovering over Churchill College, Cambridge. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which is 60cm-diameter, takes off and lands vertically and can fly in winds of up to 10mph.
[September 7, 2007, 17:32]
Broadband takes to the sky
News The world's first unmanned plane intended as a telecom tower in the sky is attracting interest as a new way to get broadband Internet connections to businesses. Helios, an aircraft resembling a giant wing, was built with funding and research help...
[August 14, 2001, 9:45]
Toward Efficient Solutions to Resist Mobile Traffic Sensors: How Much Performance Cost Is Paid by On-Demand Anonymous Routing Protocols
White Papers The recent progress in embedded real-time system development has realized mobile traffic sensors, for example, embedded systems carried by palm-size Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). This has great impact on privacy design in mobile ad hoc networks...
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
Thursday
Blog A report from the New Scientist says that the US Department of Defence is considering nuclear powered drones -- unmanned aircraft for surveillance or attack purposes. Thursday 27/02/2003 More radioactive peculiarities today.
[February 28, 2003, 16:50]
Space Envi Deluxe
Downloads Space Envi Deluxe goes beyond our top-selling Space Envi application by including: - The ability to save any image - A complete archive of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (14 years worth) - A similar period of Hubble photographs, organized by...
[October 24, 2008, 22:42]
Trans-atlantic balloon attempt survives the night
Blog A small group of enthusiasts based in Knoxville, Tennessee has been building "Spirit of Knoxville" unmanned balloons with the target of crossing the Atlantic. Much excitement this morning. The balloons are equipped with a computer, GPS and an...
[March 12, 2008, 8:31]
Balloon goes up for rural broadband
News High altitude balloons and unmanned solar-powered aircraft may be the key to rural broadband, if a major European Union project is successful. Over the next year, Capanina intends to develop aerial links capable of delivering up to 120 megabits per...
[January 21, 2004, 9:15]
NASA plans cosmic Internet
News Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned aircraft would be scheduled to pass over Valles Marineris, a huge canyon on the Red Planet, in 2003 -- on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first...
[February 2, 1999, 16:58]
A Year Ago: NASA plans cosmic Internet
News Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned aircraft would be scheduled to pass over Valles Marineris, a huge canyon on the Red Planet, in 2003 -- on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first...
[February 2, 2000, 6:01]
Report argues case for EU-US data sharing
News The 27 members of the EU should also pool intelligence on terrorism, develop joint video surveillance and unmanned drone aircraft, start networks of anti-terrorism centres, and boost the role and powers of an intelligence co-ordinating body in...
[August 7, 2008, 16:18]
Dot-com space dabble 'a success'
News The unmanned capsule was said to have returned to Earth safely on its parachute. The first private, piloted spacecraft built in the UK blasted off from a windswept beach at Morecambe Bay on the North West coast of the UK on Thursday morning.
[November 22, 2001, 13:10]
Like flying model aircraft? Fancy a really big one? And a sun tan?
Blog It is reference CS55581/J50030A00059383 (in case the listing goes away but you still fancy applying) for a "UAV Pilot" - someone who sits in a shed and flies a large unmanned plane at a safe distance from the consequences.
[April 8, 2009, 2:31]
A little light discipline
Leader If a company won't even switch off an unmanned office, there's no chance it will care about the consumption of its IT department. Recently, ZDNet UK attended the VMworld conference in Los Angeles. A major part of proceedings was the message that...
[December 6, 2006, 16:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'd left a message about the recent Chinese unmanned test flight of their new manned spacecraft. A first! I get email from the People's Republic of China -- not spam (a little unlikely, I grant you) or other impersonal stuff, but from a real live...
[November 27, 1999, 18:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I'd left a message about the recent Chinese unmanned test flight of their new manned spacecraft. A first! I get email from the People's Republic of China -- not spam (a little unlikely, I grant you) or other impersonal stuff, but from a real live...
[November 27, 1999, 18:58]
RFID to be fitted in all mobiles by 2010
News He said Ericsson is working with a utilities company that has 700 separate unmanned facilities and around 15,000 keys — a logistical nightmare it wants to eliminate via the use of RFID-enabled mobiles.
[June 25, 2009, 12:10]
