KinetX Inc., a small aerospace technologies company based in Tempe, Arizona, announced that it has expanded its offerings with sub-systems for UAS.
Category Archives: Electronic Sub-Systems
GE Produces Rugged Computers for UAS
GE Intelligent Platforms is introducing a family of rugged, off-the-shelf Embedded Computing systems for unmanned aircraft systems and unmanned ground vehicles.
MIT uses Kinect for Autonomous Flight and Mapping
Students at MIT have developed a real-time visual odometry system that can use a Kinect to provide fast and accurate estimates of a vehicle’s 3D trajectory.
US Army to Test Triple Sensors on Gray Eagle
The U.S. Army will use a General Atomics’ MQ-1C Gray Eagle this spring to flight-test a new system of multiple sensors that can be controlled by ground troops or aircraft crews. The Triclops system adds a sensor under each wing to the fuselage sensor carried by UAS.
Russian UAS Effort Loses Direction
Russia has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying Israeli unmanned aircraft systems (and to acquire technology and components for joint UAS production. But at present these UAS are no more than expensive flying TV-cameras, the targeting information they produce is mostly useless, since there are no precise GLONASS (GPS)-targeted weapon systems to use it.
Multi-Spectral Imaging to Monitor Soil Composition
Carinthian Tech Research (Austria), Schiebel GmbH (Austria), and Quest Innovations B.V. (The Netherlands) have developed an aerial multispectral imaging system to monitor the soil composition of agricultural land.
Selex High Resolution SAR on Insitu’s Integrator in Oz
Insitu Pacific and SELEX Galileo have announced that they are collaborating on rapidly integrating SELEX Galileo’s high-resolution synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) PicoSAR into the Integrator UAS.
World’s Smallest Transponder on Kansas State UAS
Sagetech Transponder
Kansas State University at Salina’s unmanned aircraft programme is the first to use the XPS-TR transponder developed by Sagetech Corporation, which has shattered size records with a footprint smaller than that of a standard business card.