SBG Systems Launches Next-Gen Of The Ekinox Series Inertial Sensors
Ekinox 2 Series is a new generation of the SBG’ advanced and compact inertial navigation systems. With new accelerometers and gyroscopes, Ekinox 2 attitude accuracy has been enhanced by a factor of two.
Ekinox 2 Series: Twice More Accurate
Ekinox Series is a line of tactical grade MEMS-based ...
Amazon’s Prime Air Drone Makes Its First US Delivery @ MARS 2017
Amazon announced its plans to test delivery drones in Britain last July and in December, the firm revealed it had made its first delivery within just 13 minutes.
And although Amazon did get the green light to start testing its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at a US site last summer, the drops ...
uAvionix, Kongsberg Geospatial Announce Integrated ADS-B Technology
Kongsberg Geospatial’s IRIS UAS situational awareness display now integrates the uAvionix PingStation ADS-B receiver to provide an effective way to monitor drones and airspace.
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based developer of real-time geospatial visualization software, announced today with ...
Amazon Patents Drones With Telescoping Legs And Foldable Propellers
Amazon’s inventors are taking a page from Inspector Gadget’s playbook to design drones with adjustable landing legs and reconfigurable propellers.Those two design tricks are the focus of patents issued today. It’s hard to say whether they’ll become features on Amazon’s delivery ...
Gremlins Takes Flight to Provide Air-Recoverable Unmanned Air Systems
Dynetics, Inc. has been awarded a contract for Phase 2 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Gremlins program, an innovative technology program that seeks to enable aircraft to launch volleys of low-cost reusable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and safely and reliably retrieve ...
Terabee Sensor And Sensing Solutions Introduces TeraRanger Tower Concept
Sensor and sensing solutions company, Terabee, has released a new video showing how their alternative to traditional rotating LiDAR scanners, the TeraRanger Tower, can be used to perform drone collision avoidance against a wall.Based on APM 3.5, they’ve written drivers allowing the TeraRanger ...
Martek Marine Named On World’s Biggest Ever €67M Maritime Drone Contract
Martek Marine (Martek) has been awarded a ground breaking 2-year Remotely Piloted Aircraft Services (RPAS) contract from the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The services offered will fulfill part of the world’s largest ever maritime drone contract.Part of a five-year EMSA strategy of ...