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Kingfisher

Eugenia Acosta, an intern with Clearpath Robotics, unloads a Kingfisher unmanned vessel in preparation for a mission (top photo), the Kingfisher components and controller (bottom photo).

“Our products are robotic research platforms,” says Clearpath’s Meghan Hennessey. “These can be configured and programmed so that our customers can explore their particular areas of interest without all the cost and troubleshooting involved in actually building robots themselves.”

Hennessey says Clearpath platforms — which include the all-terrain Husky, the larger, tractor-like Grizzly and the waterborne Kingfisher — can be thought of as project kits.

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How do you trust centimeter level accuracy positioning?

Q: How do you trust centimeter level accuracy positioning?

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September 17, 2014

Alison Brown: Tally Ho! The Hunt for GNSS Innovations

In 2005, Alison Brown was the first Sidney Sussex College woman alumna to be named as an honorary Fellow in recognition of her distinguished technical contributions. Pictured here with Keith Glover, now head of engineering at Cambridge University, who taught Brown control systems engineering, and Donald Green, her director of studies while she was an undergraduate.

SIDEBAR: Alison Brown’s Compass Points

On display in the Smithsonian’s “Time and Navigation” exhibit in Washington D.C. is the world’s first GPS-enabled cell phone. It was developed in 1995 by NAVSYS Corporation, a Colorado GNSS and inertial R& D company, as part of the push to build a national emergency notification system for mobile users, E911.

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Developing an Ionospheric Scintillation Monitoring Receiver

Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter Hein, head of Europe’s Galileo Operations and Evolution.

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SAGAIE

Scintillation — rapid RF signal frequency and amplitude changes due to signal propagation path changes and phase shifting caused by solar turbulence in the ionosphere — is well known in the GNSS community. However, conclusive scientific studies that cover the whole extent of the question are hard to find. Galileo In-Orbit Validation Experiment (GIOVE) data processing confirmed the effects of scintillation on GNSS receivers, as described in the paper by J. Giraud listed in the Additional Resources section near the end of this article.

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August 19, 2014

Virginia: Autonomous Technology

David Schmale, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech uses unmanned aircraft to take samples of microbes that populate clouds.

1. The Team
The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, led by Virginia Tech, is the combined effort of Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey.

2. Research Centers
Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Rutgers University, National Institute of Aerospace, Liberty University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rowan University, The Richard Stockton College of NJ, Virginia State University.

3. Test Ranges

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Texas: Marine Applications

An unmanned aircraft captures attention on the Corpus Christi campus.

1. The Team

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North Dakota: Communications and Electronics

A University of North Dakota researcher totes a ScanEagle during a day of testing.

1. The Team
The state’s lieutenant governor chairs the Northern Plains Unmanned Systems Authority, which manages the state’s test range effort. The University of North Dakota is the leading research member of the group, which also includes North Dakota State University, the Office of the Adjutant General, North Dakota Aeronautics Commission and the North Dakota Department of Commerce.

2. Research Centers
University of North Dakota, North Dakota State University.

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New York: Testing and Evaluation

1. The Team
Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) Alliance leads a consortium of more than 50 universities, companies and facilities supporting testing on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in New York and Massachusetts. The group includes firms like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Helios as well as research organizations such as Draper Laboratory and the Air Force Research Labs Information Directorate. More than 20 colleges and universities contribute to NUAIR.

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August 8, 2014

DARPA seeks bids for ‘upward falling payloads’ project

This artist’s concept shows a potential communications application of an upward falling payload.

The pentagon’s most creative research agency is seeking its second round of proposals for a system of deep sea devices that can lie dormant on the sea floor for years and then be triggered from a distance to deploy payloads including air and ocean drones.

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UAS Center of Excellence solicitation to be released in May

The new Center of Excellence will do research to support the Federal Aviation Administration as it works to integrate unmanned aircraft into the national airspace.

Officials will release a draft solicitation for the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) new Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and field questions at a late-May meeting in Washington.

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Nine teams enter NASA’s $500,000 sense-and-avoid Challenge

Nine teams of students and private sector inventors will compete this fall to see who can build the best detect-and-avoid system for small unmanned aircraft.

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