Posts by Dave Clarke

Illustration replicates artificial intelligence scenarios.

AAM-Gym for Artificial Intelligence Practice

Researchers have created an Advanced Air Mobility “gym” that will allow for thousands of potential simulations to improve the development of eVTOLs.

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a team tries to score points by remote controlling their drones toward a target goal.

What Is Drone Soccer?

Drone soccer’s time has come! This sport is fun and a great way to develop UAV skills!

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diagram that shows the SoS approach to Urban Air Mobility architecting

For UAM to Succeed, the Stars Won’t Need to Align, But a Lot of Systems Will

Researchers at the Hamburg, Germany-based German Aerospace Center, Institute of System Architectures in Aeronautics (DLR), wanted to understand how different fully electric urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft architecture might affect the overall system of systems’ (SoS’) capability. (SoS refers to a complex system composed of multiple systems that work together to achieve what can’t be…

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close of a great white shark's jaw, shot from below

UAVs Take Flight to Save the Sharks

As drone technology (design, battery life, video image resolution) improves, it will help save the lives of sharks, researchers, and swimmers.

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A Win for Drone Journalism

A Texas judge ruled it is legal to use drones for newsgathering and to publish their photos.

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UMD UAS drone

Skating on Thin Ice – Better UAS Than You or Me

Unmanned drone systems equipped with sensors may be able to help move the scientific study of sea ice forward.

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