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RQ-4 Global Hawk - UAV.
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RQ-4 Global Hawk - an unmanned aerial vehicle in the service of NASA.
Northrop Grumman Company, in collaboration with NOAA, NASA Research Center, presented the reconstructed drone aircraft is the RQ-4 Global Hawk. The main functional task - studying the Earth's atmosphere.
The unit is fully self-contained, capable of flying for 30 hours without refueling at an altitude of 19,812 feet. At the same time scientific equipment on board can reach a weight of 907 kg.
Initially UAVs were intended for intelligence operations for military purposes, and where used in 1998. In 2007th NASA acquired two aircraft GloPac to conduct their own research programs of the atmosphere.
The devices were converted for academic purposes and tested for two years. One of the devices - AV-1 - is ready and the other - AV-6 will soon begin his academic career.
Planes are designed for normal aerodynamic configuration. The wings and V-shaped tail feathers are entirely made of composite material based on carbon fiber fuselage is made of aluminum alloys. Wingspan UAV reaches 35 meters, length is 13.3 meters, a takeoff weight tends to 15 tons.
The cost of military prototype is $ 35 million, but the equipment side of scientific equipment that increases the price by several times.
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AirPenguin - robotic penguins in the exhibition in Hanover.
Technical Bureau of the German Festo presented his new creation - bionic flying robot penguins - the exhibition high technology in Hanover. Silver-filled with helium, they were called AirPenguin.
During the demonstration, a group of three autonomously flying penguins to move freely in the air. To test the space for each bird, placed an electronic 3D-ultrasound sonar developed by EvoLogics in Berlin. With this device the robot avoids collisions with walls and their peers.
Like previous models, the penguins imitate the habits of their prototypes, it is easy to copy their movements, turning and
bend with flexible fiberglass rods that control their heads. Markus Fischer, head of the group developers Festo, plans to further develop the autonomous bionic systems for industrial use.
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Cargonaut - flying robot, a carrier of goods.
The latest electronic advances - a flying robot, designed to deliver the goods. Its author - Matthias Schmiedbauer, an industrial designer from Germany. The main function of Cargonaut, was the name of the new assistant - carry luggage weights, luggage, in a word, all that, sometimes, can not afford to raise one person.
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The atmospheric robot from JPL.
The list of projects, Jet Propulsion Laboratory today - Autonomous Technological airboat (aeronautic robot), designed to study the planets of the solar system, where there is atmosphere. Despite the fact that the main objective of the study -
Saturn's moon Titan, airboat may also be applicable to the atmosphere of Venus and Earth.
Autonomous technology include the following areas of development:
a system of "security", which guarantees the protection and integrity of the airboat during the time of flight, even if
temporary disruption of communication;
stable and accurate control of autonomous flight, including deployment / lift-off, a long flight, the maintenance of steady-state orbit and the exercise of choice with the landing surface failure and a missed approach;
spatial mapping and definition of its position on the map;
hazard detection and target detection, tracking, and servo control, allowing airboat to detect and avoid atmospheric and topographic hazards, as well as to identify the object and keep the area to accommodate the features of the landscape.
Avionics and communications systems are installed in the gondola. Avionics has computer architecture, dual-stack. One stack is used for navigation and flight control, while the the other is dedicated to image processing.
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JPL AHT - standalone test model helicopter.
Stand-alone test model helicopter (The Autonomous Helicopter Testbed / AHT /) is a robotic platform for technological research and testing. AHT, based on a Bergen Industrial Helicopter, it is - RC helicopter rotor blades and a diameter of two meters, equipped with a double-cylinder gas engine and a payload of about 9 kg. The new invention is capable of fully autonomous flight, moving on a given GPS-points of the route and using a vision system for landing in difficult terrain.
Recognition and calculations are performed on-board systems. Computing stack uses PC/104-based-arhitekturu and is composed of numerous boards, including the cost of the CPU PIII 700 MHz, the fee Timer / Counter & DIO, a board with four serial-port, charge capture video in NTSC, board PCMCIA, card wireless LAN 802.11b. The sensors include a receiver DGPS, a camera with a resolution of 640x480, laser altimeter, IMU and compass / inclinometer.
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