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Up in the air
By: Interbrand Australia
Tags: Innovation, Space Economy, Defence, Drones, Brands

In defence of drones

According to a Business Insider forecast from earlier this year, the drone services market is due to be worth over $88b by 2025, with growth “to occur across the four main segments of the enterprise industry: Agriculture, construction and mining, insurance, and media and telecommunications”. The industry benefitted from Covid, too, with a marked increase in their use for tasks like mapping and site inspections, in lieu of teams being able to physically do so.

But the real opportunity exists in the military sector.

Locally, defence spending currently sits at 2 per cent of GDP; it’s predicted to almost double by decade’s end.

Worldwide, spending has accelerated in recent years, driven by both escalating tensions and changes in the way those tensions are being addressed. For instance, investment in solutions like robotics, flame-retardant fabrics, and advanced optics are on the up.

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), the military’s more specific name for drones, vary greatly in size and purpose. The one thing they have in common across the world is their popularity on the modern battlefield.

Philippe Odouard, Managing Director of Canberra-based defence products manufacturer Xtek, spoke of drone tech’s breadth in Stockhead earlier this year, saying, “There’s real tenders going out covering all sizes you can dream of — from an 18-gram device you can carry to what they call the Triton, which has a wingspan of a 757.”

Droneshield, which builds and sells patented counterdrone systems, anticipates its worth to be $6.2bn by 2026. At present, this One to Watch has local partnerships, plus contracts with the US Airforce and the EU. But as UAV adoption increases globally, that valuation could even be an understatement.
Successful Drone Taxi Flights In South Korea
Tags: Technology News, Taxi, Drones, Technology, Technews

South Korea has successfully tested its most important flying taxi, the E-Hang 216, which takes passengers from one place to another in crowded cities. This time the air taxi has been flown three times.

The ride, which promotes air tourism and provides executive service, is fully electric and fully autonomous. The E-Hang has been tested in South Korea, where it has previously obtained a formal safety certificate for an automated air taxi. The test flight can accommodate two passengers. The bomber struck shortly after noon in a crowded South Korean city.

But the South Korean government has identified specific destinations for all three flights, but the e-hang taxi service will begin in the next three to five years. The first flight started from Manhattan, Seoul, and reached the main commercial and business area.

The second test noted his emergency performance, for which the city of Diego was chosen. Medicine and fire extinguishers were delivered on the flight and the experiment was successful. The third flight, E-Hang 216, flew to coastal areas and other parts of the city, which can be called a recreational flight.

It has 16 petals arranged in eight pairs. These propellers surround the entire cabin. It has a maximum speed of 130 km per hour and can cover a distance of 100 km on a single charge.

South Korea’s aviation administration has said it will determine an air route to E-Hang in the future.

But it should be noted that many companies in the United States and Europe are currently working on air taxis.
Under Control: Empowering Disturbance Observer Controllers with the Fourier Transform
By: Korea Maritime, Ocean University
Tags: Controller, Fourier Transform, Science, Drones, Technology

As modern society progresses, and automated systems become more sophisticated and complex, the importance of designing advanced and reliable controllers skyrockets. Controllers monitor system variables and ensure that processes and machines operate stably within defined limits. Over the last two decades, controllers based on the disturbance observer-based control (DOBC) theory have become increasingly popular. These controllers measure external disturbances affecting the system and compensate them as necessary in order to keep the system stable. However, existing implementations of this theory can only manage periodic disturbances, which greatly limits their applicability — in the real world, disturbances can take many forms and are usually nonperiodic.

In a recent study published in IEEE Access, a pair of Korean scientists tackled this problem through an innovative approach: combining the DOBC theory with a powerful mathematical tool called the Fourier transform. Dr Han Sol Kim from the National Korea Maritime and Ocean University explains their reasoning: “The Fourier transform can be used to represent a nonperiodic disturbance as a sum of infinite periodic disturbances. Then, by selecting the most dominant periodic disturbances only, we can design distinct DOBCs that compensate for each one.”

To achieve this, the scientists began with the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model, an approach that represents complex nonlinear systems — which describe many real-world dynamic systems — as linear subsystems. By combining a slightly modified version of this fuzzy modelling method with the DOBC theory and applying the Fourier transform, they managed to design a controller with a better response compared with other state-of-the-art methods, as shown through simulations.

This controller design could be particularly useful for modern technological systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. The performance of UAVs largely depends on how well they can automatically handle external disturbances such as the wind and changes in air resistance. In this regard, Dr Kim remarks: “Without properly compensating for disturbances, UAVs can cause accidents, harming people and destroying property. I believe that our method will be an efficient solution for UAV systems because it can guarantee robust performance against disturbances.”

Their approach is purely theoretical so far, but they plan on implementing it in a real hardware platform in the near future. If all goes well, we might just have a new effective method for keeping our machines under control.
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Design Thinking — The M.E.D. (Medical Emergency Drone)
By: Gauri Shetty
Tags: Coronavirus, Design Thinking, Quarantine, Drones, Medical

Recently, I and my friends attended a design thinking competition lead by Bright Spark. We won the award for the most creative invention. Our challenge statement was, “How might we bring communities together?” We had to brainstorm a problem, come up with a feasible solution, and create a 90-second pitch video to explain our idea. Here is the basis of our invention. Many people each year die from ambulance delays. With our invention, we have found a way to reduce medical response time to an accident, along with a communication system to alert medical volunteers. Our invention name is M.E.D. The M.E.D., which is used by emergency responders, has 2 parts to it, a drone for fast response time and a messenger system to notify medical volunteers.

A situation example would be a person in need calls 911, 911 then sends an emergency drone. Attached to the drone is a microphone and speaker for communication, along with a camera for a better understanding of the situation. The main benefit of the drone would be speed. As the drone is approaching, a message will be sent out to all nearby doctors, certified professionals, and medical volunteers to come and check vitals and stabilize the victim. The medical volunteers will check vitals and the drone will take in all the information and send it to doctors and the paramedics that are on the way. This will speed up the process of getting the victim to the hospital because the medical professionals already know the situation the victim is in.

The pitch video will be shared below if you would want to look into it.
How Advancement Of Technology Is Assisting Roofing Companies
Tags: Roofing, Solutions, Drones, Technology, Construction

In today’s connected world, just like most of the industries, the roofing sector is also discovering several opportunities, which they can utilize to make their work more proficient and also assist their business to run smoothly. Below are some of the examples of technology that the roofing companies use to improve their client experience.

1. Simplify Jobs using Aerial Imagery

Aerial Photography from Airplanes

Aerial photographers are continuously enhancing their craft, and these photographers are also now offering photos of properties and buildings that the roofing companies can request and procure. The photographs can later be used for measurements and estimation.

Drone Photography

One of the highly demanded technologies in recent year is drones. The unmanned aerial device is continuously capturing the public’s imagination as almost every organization is trying to take advantage of it, and the roofing industry is not an exception.

Both the third-party service providers and individual roofing contractors have started to utilize the drones so that they can capture the aerial imagery and also other related data that are used for the roofing projects.

2. Speed up Quoting with Estimation Software

Before starting a project, one of the essential parts of the roofer’s work is to come up with a proper and fair quote for their clients. The companies can decrease the time that consumes for the production of a quote by utilizing the benefits of software programs that will do the calculations for them.

3. Promote using Social Media

Nowadays, it is not difficult to measure the impact social media has on the world as it has successfully altered everything starting from everyday social interactions to politics to retail industry sales. Social media can also be useful for roofing companies as they can efficiently market their offerings to their targeted audience.

Technological advancement does not mean it only has to be digital. The roofing companies can also enhance the performance of a new roof with products like high-performance asphalt shingles that provide better colors, an improved look and also easy to install.

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Top 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E hits 300-mi EPA range



Ford Motor Co. announced that the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certified range numbers for several variants of the all-electric 2021 Mustang Mach-E. The company says it has met all its targeted EPA-estimated range ratings for variants tested by the EPA to date. The premium extended-range rear-wheel-drive model meets its targeted range of 300 mi, while the extended-range all-wheel-drive version hits its 270-mi range. The standard-range rear-wheel-drive Mach-E meets its targeted range of 230-mi, and the standard-range all-wheel-drive model exceeds its targeted 210 mi at 211 mi. “This validation by the EPA comes at a perfect time as the Mustang Mach-E is gearing up to take on the open road,” said Darren Palmer, Global Director, Battery Electric Vehicles, Ford Motor Co. The California Route 1 has a targeted range of 300 mi, which will be confirmed once EPA officials complete their tests. Customer deliveries for the Mustang Mach-E start in December in the U.S. For more info on the Mach-E, visit https://www.ford.com/suvs/mach-e/2021/.







Xpeng reveals limited-edition P7 Wing at Auto Guangzhou



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Running Cleanflight Configuration on Debian/Ubuntu
By: Luis Coelho
Tags: Cleanflight, Betaflight, Drone

Introduction



Cleanfligh is one of the 3 major software stacks for making a drone flying. The other 2 are betaflight and inav.



All this software stack are forked from a common source the multiwii project, and they generate firmware to be used in flight controllers or drive controllers based on STM32FX microprocessor family from STMicroelectronics.



Cleanfligh comes with a neat interface to do the firmware configuration. It runs as a Google app (nice choice, not so wise the choice from betaflight and inav). Running the app itself is straightforward as soon as you have chrome or chromium installed in your system.



The trick part or the hard part is the USB driver that this boards normally have, a USB to UART bridge CP210x family chip from Silicon Labs.



The installation on Windows follow the standard procedure by running an installation application in elevate mode and sometimes reboot the PC.



In Linux is a bit different, the provided module needs to be compiled and installed.



Let me explain to you the steps from the beginning:



Step #1 — Install Chromium and cleanflight latest version



lukidrone@lukidrone:~$ sudo apt install chromium



Run chromium and install cleanflight :



Go to http://cleanflight.com/ and click on “install chrome app”



cleanfligh.com
Lean Canvas Analysis # 2 | Drone Detection of Forest Fires | PM Team 7
By: Harysh Magesh
Tags: Model, Lean Canvas, Business, Drones, Wildfires

Lean Canvas Analysis:

We believe that using drones to monitor fire prone areas will help forest services and firefighters fight fires more effectively and reduce the damages, costs, and casualties of forest fires. Forest services must survey, monitor, and protect large areas using tax-payer dollars and current methods they use to chive their goals, including manned fly-overs, civilian reporting, and manned watch-towers are costly and/or inefficient, leading to corners being cut when it comes to safety and coverage. According to stateforesters.org, “the federal government spent over $4 billion on fighting wildfires in 2018” which was mostly funded by tax-payers. The forest service is trying to achieve their goals more efficiently and cheaply, allowing them to detect unknown fires quicker and reduce damages inflicted by fires in terms of yearly costs of fighting fires, property damage, and casualties to humans and animals. By creating a drone system that can fly over forests, we can reduce costs while increasing monitoring capability, giving forest services data that enables them to respond quicker to forest fires and other emergencies within their domain, reducing damages and casualties caused by forest fires. For our hypothesis to be true, the following would have to be true:

Firstly, operating a fleet of drones would have to be cheaper than current watchtower and manned fly-over systems. Second, we are assuming that forest service organizations will want and pay for our drone systems. Thirdly, the drones, as a fleet, would need to have a large enough range and battery life to cover the entire forest. Finally, we must assume that our system will reduce the property damage, environmental damage, and casualties related to forest fires in one fire season.

If we offer a free trail to a set number of forest organizations across the country for one season, we could give them the option to purchase our system for the next fire season and see how many choose to replace/supplement their current systems with ours. To test the range, we could build a prototype and test its capabilities in terms of flight distance, flight time, and battery performance. In our free trial, we can collect data from one fire season and compare it to the year before to measure the success or failure of our system. In addition to forest fires, we foresee that our system can accomplish many more jobs for the forest service other than monitoring forest fires. Our current focus on solely forest fires is because it is where we see we can make the most impact on not just their budgets but on saving lives and our planet.
How Technology Is A Boon For Successful Commercial Roofing
By: Constructionbusiness Review
Tags: Roofing, Drones, Technology, Construction, Technews

Roofing technology is evolving rapidly, and technology is becoming a must-have tool. The demand for roofing technology to support advances in business management, sustainability, and material trends has increased alongside that growth.

Fremont, CA: Companies are taking advantage of new, cutting edge technology to be an advantage as they continue to increase the efficiency on the job site, as well as in the organizations through the better business management process. Success in commercial roofing demands skill, an understanding of the craft, and meaningful jobsite experience. There is nothing that can second the approach of a roofer familiar with the needed materials and techniques.

The technology, however, could enhance the already-existing skills and make a roofer’s job more accessible than before. The innovative products available currently can help to prepare for the projects, streamline the work, and stay at the top of the business.

An Ariel View

While preparing for a job, having a clear sense of the property in question and its surroundings helps. Taking a look at the top view of the project before the beginning helps to prepare yourself and your team for the challenges that lie ahead. For instance, Google Earth images can be beneficial in early discussions with building owners or property managers. A top-view picture of a project can give an idea of what to expect from nearby buildings, overhanging trees, challenges to building access, or the existing roof itself.

Better Project Development

Computer-aided design (CAD) programs create a possibility to draw the result of a roofing project, making the plan and its details relatively easier for everyone involved to visualize. Additionally, computer-based bidding programs can make the process of estimation of the cost of a project seamless and keep the team organized.

Organized Management

The technology eliminates the need for personal notebooks and notes. Project management software like Dataforma makes photos, notes, and all the other important project-related documents accessible to anyone involved in the project with the help of an app on a smartphone or a tablet. With the introduction of this type of platform, employees can access records from anywhere keeping everyone on the same page, including property managers and building owners, who can see through the running records about what is going on in a particular roof.

Old or new, technology can be beneficial in a roofing project. While utilizing the latest and greatest in technological innovations, one has to ensure that it enhances an existing skilled, detail-oriented team, not just for looking good and impressing the clients with fancy equipment.

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How Advancement Of Technology Is Assisting Roofing Companies
By: Constructionbusiness Review
Tags: Roofing, Drones, Technology, Construction, Technews

Technological advancement is helping the roofing sector discover many opportunities with which they can enhance their customer experience.

FREMONT, CA: In today’s connected world, just like most of the industries, the roofing sector is also discovering several opportunities, which they can utilize to make their work more proficient and also assist their business to run smoothly. Below are some of the examples of technology that the roofing companies use to improve their client experience.

1. Simplify Jobs using Aerial Imagery

Aerial Photography from Airplanes

Aerial photographers are continuously enhancing their craft, and these photographers are also now offering photos of properties and buildings that the roofing companies can request and procure. The photographs can later be used for measurements and estimation.

Drone Photography

One of the highly demanded technologies in recent year is drones. The unmanned aerial device is continuously capturing the public’s imagination as almost every organization is trying to take advantage of it, and the roofing industry is not an exception.

Both the third-party service providers and individual roofing contractors have started to utilize the drones so that they can capture the aerial imagery and also other related data that are used for the roofing projects.

2. Speed up Quoting with Estimation Software

Before starting a project, one of the essential parts of the roofer’s work is to come up with a proper and fair quote for their clients. The companies can decrease the time that consumes for the production of a quote by utilizing the benefits of software programs that will do the calculations for them.

3. Promote using Social Media

Nowadays, it is not difficult to measure the impact social media has on the world as it has successfully altered everything starting from everyday social interactions to politics to retail industry sales. Social media can also be useful for roofing companies as they can efficiently market their offerings to their targeted audience.

Technological advancement does not mean it only has to be digital. The roofing companies can also enhance the performance of a new roof with products like high-performance asphalt shingles that provide better colors, an improved look and also easy to install.

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DRDO provides ‘Bharat drones’ to the Indian Army for accurate surveillance at the India-China border
Tags: Army, Indian Army, Politics, China, Drones

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India-China LAC: With tensions at LAC going on between India and China for more than two months now, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has provided drones named ‘Bharat’ to the Indian Army. The indigenously developed drones are sent to provide accurate surveillance along the Line of Actual Control in high altitude and mountainous terrains of Eastern Ladakh, news agency ANI reported quoting defense sources as saying. The Indian Army requires drones for accurate surveillance in the ongoing dispute in the Eastern Ladakh area. For this requirement, the DRDO has provided the Bharat drones to it,” defense sources told ANI here. The Bharat drones have been developed by a Chandigarh-based laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The Bharat series of drones can be listed among “World’s most agile and lightest Surveillance drones. Indigenously developed by the DRDO.”
Implementing Paradigm-shifting Approaches to Countering Unmanned Aerial Systems
By: Chris Williams
Tags: Military, Leadership, Innovation, Product Management, Drones

Legacy reinvestment on too-big-to-fail systems has been an Achilles heel for the U.S. Government. Constant turnover in resources, priorities, and processes designed to thwart innovation has allowed adversaries to achieve asymmetric advantage with the proliferation of low-cost, easy to acquire unmanned systems.

Counter drone systems have historically been larger and less capable, more complex and less innovative, designed for less common threats and vulnerable to more prevalent ones.

With feedback from over 2,000+ servicemen and servicewomen that have experienced the unmanned system threat, were educated to understand the threat, and have received training on dozens of multi-million dollar complex CUAS solutions, there was one common thread of feedback: Warfighters consistently discovered that the technology they deployed with was ill-equipped to protect them from the most common drone threat.

4 Requests from the Warfighter When Asked About the Future of CUAS

1. Warfighters want a solution they can jump into and operate immediately without requiring a lot of training or change in their behavior. Simple innovation is more effective than feature-full options.

2. Warfighters want a capability they can trust. Products must do what they claim — consistently, reliably, and effectively in real-world operational environments. Futuristic promises are a leading indicator for disappointment down range.

3. Warfighters want solutions designed for the 90% that can adapt, rather than for the 10% with constant delays. Warfighters get products forced upon them that were designed to address threats identified 3 years ago. Unfortunately these solutions have limited ability to be improved upon and leave Warfighters unnecessarily vulnerable.

4. Warfighters want a voice in design, development, and decision making for the equipment they must use. The all-too-common inside-out focus damages the influence that end-user insights have on creating the right solution for the mission. Don’t let individuals unfamiliar with the threat guide the outcome — they don’t have to live with the consequences.

Final Conclusions:

There must be a shift in mindset from being project-focused to being product-focused. This requires a new way of working that moves from annual checkpoints to more frequent and continuous feedback loops to be more responsive to rapidly evolving conditions.

The product development and program acquisition decisioning canvas must balance desirability, usability, feasibility, and viability. Without these four legs of the stool being constantly re-evaluated over the course of a development effort, The U.S. runs the risk of being outmatched by China and Russia’s ability to do so.
How To Mount Your DJI Remote To A Bike
By: Tobias Wissmueller
Tags: Bicycles, Dji Mini 2, Dji, Quadlock, Drones

Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

In case you are the proud owner of a

and want to mount it to the handlebar of your bike, just keep on reading, I have a handy solution for you.

My solution is heavily based on Quadlock products.

I love their products because of their practicability, build quality and simplicity. By now, I have Quadlock stands on every desk, in the car and mounts on all bikes, some with and some without wireless charging heads.

Sometimes, while riding on my bike, I want to take a quick shot with the drone while still riding or want to keep everything ready for the next quick shot without having to stash everything back into a case or pockets.

It needs to be convenient. If I have to fiddle around with something then I won’t do it. I need a quick and easy to use solution.

Sometimes, you have to be quick to get the shot. Being quick introduces errors. One way to mitigate errors is to avoid them in the first place.

Despite your DJI remote you need the following items:

When I saw the bracket I knew that this is my preferred solution. There is nothing I have to stick directly onto the remote which might be hard to remove later on.

I also like the possibility to attach a neck strap which I always do with my remotes.

A mount that can be attached to the handlebar of your bike is also required.

For those rides without your remote, you can use the mount with your phone only, but that requires the right case for your phone model.

Here are two examples:

Quadlock offers a great variety of mounting options and of course cases for different phones.

Let’s put everything together.

Stick the Quadlock Universal Adapter onto the backside of the Honbobo Bracket.

Attach the Honbobo Bracket onto your remote.

Attach the Quadlock Out Front Mount (or whatever mount you require), to your handlebar. Attach your remote onto the mount and off you go!

Let me know if that solution work for you or if you have other solutions.

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Drone Services for Mining Industry | Drone Survey for Mining | Drone Solutions for Mining
By: Digital Marketing
Tags: Drone Survey, Drone Service, Drones, Drone Services Companies, Mining Industry

Drone Services for Mining Industry | Drone Survey for Mining | Drone Solutions for Mining Digital Marketing ·Nov 20, 2020

We collect mining data involves lot of site work with conventional methods, but we fly drone’s above open pit mines and collect data, which is then processed in house. Using Data captured with UAV / Drone’s, we create precise Orthophoto, DEM, DTM, 3D Model, Point cloud, Virtual Environments. On analyzing the data volume calculations, stock pile analysis, cut-fill estimation, terrain profile, feature extraction, indexing can be done. In addition to the above, we offer high-resolution 4K drone videography, photography for lease boundary inspection and UAV photogrammetry consultation services.
News Story IV — Flying drones to map B.C’s coastal pollution
By: Nikita Nayak
Tags: Vancouver, News, Canada, Science, Drones

A Vancouver-based startup called Smart Shores is developing a new way to map coastal pollution using drones and special sensors. Coastal mapping techniques that currently exist are expensive and relatively tedious.

Smart Shores President Nathan Vadeboncouer’s team of scientists hopes to carry out pollution testing and mapping in a more efficient way. They intend to make use of drones to take high-resolution images of remote areas instead of taking images of the same region using aeroplanes — a costly undertaking.

They will also be taking polluted soil samples from the field and testing them in labs. They will then be creating 3D models of the area to understand the source of the pollutants. His team will mainly be looking for heavy metals, fertilizers and the disease-causing bacteria, E.coli.

Currently, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans has banned about 30 fishing sites across BC because of the heavy chemical pollution levels at these places. The soil in shellfish habitats is often found to have toxins that contaminate the fish — creating a health risk for people who eat them.

Once Vadeboncouer’s new technology is fine-tuned, they will be able to help Semiahmoo First Nation in reviving a historic shellfish harvesting site located on their territory. Their ancestral shellfish fishery was shut down in the 1970s due to high contamination levels. Since closing down, they have not been able to carry out periodic pollution retesting of the area due to the high costs associated with the exercise.

Smart Shores plans to step in to measure current levels of pollution in the area for very little in compensation.

Should the results be positive, the revival of the local First Nations shellfish harvesting site would go a long way in giving them back an intrinsic part of their culture and heritage.

“One of the things that shellfish harvesting does is it allows older people to get together with younger people and to go out on the land and to share the stories and the cultural traditions and the traditional skills that help connect the Semiahmoo Nation with their territory, which has supported them for thousands of years.”

-Nathan Vadeboncouer Smart Shores President & Founder

Listen to Nikita Nayak’s complete interview with Nathan Vadeboncouer as he discusses the coastal pollution mapping project that will help make BC’s coast greener. Tune in to Evolution 107.9 at noon tomorrow for our news show, ‘For the Record.
UAV: Scan Whole Bridge Lengths And Nose Into Hard-To-Reach Cracks
By: Constructionbusiness Review
Tags: Drones, Uav, Technology, Construction, Technews

Engineers are experimenting with a replacement technology to stop infrastructure disaster. That’s why Minnesota, a land of the many lakes and a few 20,000 bridges, started drone experiments. At the fractional cost of traditional inspection methods, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAN) can scan whole bridge lengths and nose into hard-to-reach cracks. Drones are announced in bridge inspection because the next big thing.

Drones became an integral tool to save lots of time and money and to report on project progress. Drones can snap thousands of high-resolution images near aging trusses, piers, and bearings. Special software then stitches these images into 3D models which will be examined on computers by engineers; one click on alittle detail can call up a photograph library stretching back in time — a useful reference for timing the deterioration rate of a structure. Capacity and technology in these devices have advanced rapidly over the past five years, and therefore the industry is testing their value and exploring the way to best use drones in specific applications. Furthermore, as more automation and safety features come on board, costs for drones and related services drop significantly.

The associated costs and dangers still remain a challenge no matter the tactic wont to perform the work. AWPs and snoopers are likely to need lane closures, and therefore the equipment itself is dear to take care of and operate, while ropes need a high level of coaching and expertise for safe use.

A two-phase MnDOT/Collins scientific research started with these issues in mind, which is currently in its second phase. This study’s final objective is to spot the bridges where UAV inspection could provide the close details necessary for a radical , reliable and cost-effective inspection.

The team is currently working with another UAV, the senseFly albris (formerly called eXom), for phase-II. this is often specifically designed for work on high-detail inspection. Researchers chose this technique to re-inspect various sorts of bridges, including bridges with very confined spaces, like culverts and box girders, and to use the thermal camera of the albris to conduct deck delamination assessments.

In recent years, drone technology has come an extended way, with companies like senseFly dedicating research and development to developing drones that are specifically designed for such work. Current FAA regulations hamper the adoption of UAVs for bridge safety inspections because the time needed to get approvals is substantial and price prohibitive. However, the proposed FAA rules are set to get rid of many or all of those barriers within the hopefully near future for widespread adoption

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The Heartful Engineer: Adnan Esmail
By: Anduril Industries
Tags: Hiring, Defense, Defense Technology, Drones, Electrical Engineering

Anduril’s Head of Electrical, Adnan Esmail

Meet the software & hardware engineers, flight operators, customer specialists and product managers who are building the future of defense at Anduril.

Anduril’s head of electrical, Adnan Esmail leads with his heart. After graduating MIT he was supposed to accept a high level position with Google. That changed after massive flooding in Pakistan destroyed the country’s infrastructure and Adnan knew he needed to be there instead of California.

He put his career on hold to help the country rebuild and it taught him a lesson that changed the trajectory of his whole life. He became passionate about technologies that could make the world a better place and have a direct impact.

After helping build and sell a cancer gene sequencing company, Adnan took a meeting with Elon Musk who convinced him to work at Tesla, which he did for 4 years, developing new technologies to advance sustainability and self-driving cars.

When he met Anduril’s founder Palmer Luckey, Adnan knew Anduril was a place to combine his engineering talent, ability to innovate quickly and his passion for purpose.

“The mission at Anduril was the thing that really resonated with me,” he says. “In the World War II era, MIT worked on high impact technologies that helped the Allies win. In our generation, you find Silicon Valley startups and major universities shunning defense, which is terrifying if you look at what China is doing,” Adnan says.

Now he’s leveraging automotive technologies combined with his academic learnings to advance products like Sentry towers and Ghost drones that keep service men and women safe on the battlefield, giving the U.S. military and allies a technological edge over adversaries.

Working at Anduril aligns with Adnan’s professional and personal goals. He enjoys the complexity of the challenges he gets to solve, which he describes as very different from consumer or automotive products. As an example, he recently had to model the impact of high-speed wind gusts on a sensing system, ensuring its stability and performance. Alongside that, the team was developing a propulsion system to take a drone to over 120 mph! The problem-solving often requires mechanical, electrical, and software and AI considerations. After breaking down problems into their fundamental parts and working alongside experts in each domain, he is able to integrate the pieces together to come to the right solution.

“It’s a blast!” he says. The caliber of talent and the rapid pace of development and execution make Anduril a great place to work.

“Anduril has a spectacular team,” he says. “The density and intensity of talent is nowhere near anything I’ve ever worked with.”

Adnan and his wife are proud parents of a new son. Prior to his arrival, Adnan raced go-carts and flew aerobatic planes in his free time, but now he is busy changing diapers.

Ready for a career at Anduril? Check out our openings: www.anduril.com/careers
The Rise Of Drones In Construction
By: Jack Mathew
Tags: Security, Communication, Drones, Technology, Technews

The impact of the drone the development industry is taking new turns because it is revolutionizing the way construction projects are handled.

FREMONT, CA: Drone applications are utilized in several industries. However, the fastest-growing commercial adopter of this technology is that the housing industry . Drones are aiding project managers, superintendents, and technology managers. because the industry grows, drones in construction will still skyrocket. Read on to understand more about how this futuristic technology is transforming the industry.

• Land Monitoring

Drones are increasingly replacing conventional land-monitoring methods. Drones significantly reduce the time and energy needed to derive accurate surveys. They remove much of the manual error involved within the surveying process and have the potential to capture relevant data in remarkably less time than the normal means would require.

• Accomplishing Large Infrastructures

Drone technology offers higher-level intelligence and endurance on construction sites.

The ability to collect and report data allows drones to realize faster results. the necessity for human labor is reduced significantly, and therefore the technology is continually evolving to performing even complex tasks concerning large infrastructures. as an example , drones will enable the development firms to chop down on time, and therefore the costs required to create structures.

• Enhancing Communication and Connectivity

Drone technology has considerably improved to the purpose where instant communication and connectivity on the work site are standard. Drones are getting used for monitoring the everyday work. UAVs equipped with monitoring cameras provide video footage to facilitate surveillance and communication.

• Improving Security

The use of drones in construction is leading to a steep rise in security capabilities. The technology is offering significant support to extend the security of the on-site workers. Drones also are allowing the development firms to watch their expensive equipment and assets remotely, thereby securing the work site from vandalism or theft.

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The Rise Of Drones In Construction
By: Constructionbusiness Review
Tags: Safety, Drones, Technology, Construction, Technews

The impact of the drone the development industry is taking new turns because it is revolutionizing the way construction projects are handled.

FREMONT, CA: Drone applications are utilized in several industries. However, the fastest-growing commercial adopter of this technology is that the housing industry . Drones are aiding project managers, superintendents, and technology managers. because the industry grows, drones in construction will still skyrocket. Read on to understand more about how this futuristic technology is transforming the industry.

• Land Monitoring

Drones are increasingly replacing conventional land-monitoring methods. Drones significantly reduce the time and energy needed to derive accurate surveys. They remove much of the manual error involved within the surveying process and have the potential to capture relevant data in remarkably less time than the normal means would require.

• Accomplishing Large Infrastructures

Drone technology offers higher-level intelligence and endurance on construction sites.

The ability to collect and report data allows drones to realize faster results. the necessity for human labor is reduced significantly, and therefore the technology is continually evolving to performing even complex tasks concerning large infrastructures. as an example , drones will enable the development firms to chop down on time, and therefore the costs required to create structures.

• Enhancing Communication and Connectivity

Drone technology has considerably improved to the purpose where instant communication and connectivity on the work site are standard. Drones are getting used for monitoring the everyday work. UAVs equipped with monitoring cameras provide video footage to facilitate surveillance and communication.

• Improving Security

The use of drones in construction is leading to a steep rise in security capabilities. The technology is offering significant support to extend the security of the on-site workers. Drones also are allowing the development firms to watch their expensive equipment and assets remotely, thereby securing the work site from vandalism or theft.

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DJI new models T10 / T30 launched for agriculture drone solutions
By: Tech In China
Tags: Drones, Dji, Aircraft

On November 9, DJI released two new agricultural plant protection drones, T10 and T30.

The flagship model T30 emphasizes performance, with an operating efficiency of up to 240 acres per hour, and the package price of $8,293 USD; the T10 mainly focuses on cost-effectiveness, targeting small southern plots, small, and medium farmers with the package price of $5,277 USD.

The plant protection drone is an unmanned aircraft used for agricultural, forestry, and plant protection operations. It can spray chemicals, seeds, powders, etc. through an on-the-ground remote control or navigation flight control.

In the past, these tasks have been done manually on the ground, with low efficiency. DJI claims that by spraying with the new drone, the efficiency can be increased by about 50 times. According to the data disclosed by DJI, the sales volume of agricultural plant protection machines in DJI this year exceeded 40,000 units, and the total number of agricultural plant protection machines in the country was about 75,000 units. The number of operations per Ｍu reached 500 million. The sales and operations per Mu (Chinese unit of area) were twice those of last year. In the Heilongjiang rice market, the coverage rate of DJI agricultural machinery has exceeded 60%. Of the arable land in China, 30% is suitable for plant protection operations using drones, but only 10% is covered currently. In overseas markets, the number of channels and sales of DJI Agricultural Machinery has also doubled. In Japan, where the coverage of unmanned agricultural machinery is relatively high, the market share of DJI agricultural machinery has reached 60%-70%.

Source: https://36kr.com/newsflashes/962045172223494
Pumice — Table. Soft Abuse/LP, Digital
By: Justin Spicer
Tags: Pumice, Drone, New Zealand, Folk, Soft Abuse

Soft Abuse/LP, Digital

The horizon of experimental musics which dabble in pop and folk have no bones to pick with New Zealand. As the Aotearoa island imagined what pop sounded like from other regions, along with the late pressings they received of bands from Europe and the Americas, the retelling that occurred in the artistic beds of Dunedin, Wellington, and beyond became a touchstone. New Zealand became a place musicians from across Europe and America turned to for renewed inspiration.

Stefan Neville and Jade Farley are no different, becoming a part of this cultural fabric. With Table, Pumice exist as a means of understanding the elongated landscape of modern New Zealand and not just its storied history. One can pick up a book such as Bruce Russell’s Erewhon Calling and feel the textual sensation of a place and time. Pumice has often made music that is timeless, separate from the influential rabble of its ancestors and yet totally indebted to its originality and repetition.

Pumice — Table (Soft Abuse)

More than anything, Table is conversational. This is a communal experience of people gathering around the titular item. Much of our lived-in experiences happen around tables. It’s where we eat, play games, conduct work, chart activities, make lists … by being a utilitarian piece of furniture, it folds neatly into our existences. Tables are versatile, being able to be forged out of any surface area able to accommodate our instinctual need for a reliable place to conduct these activities.

So it’s no coincidence that Pumice’s Table serves these purposes neatly. It’s a place where the variable New Zealand sounds of old and new are laid bare in a bath of folkish melodies and pastoral drones: Farley’s forlorn violin pining deeply in “Marie”; the happy dirge of guitar and organ sang round the pint room throughout “Hankerchief”; the dark underbelly of our own souls splayed across the table through the murky harmonization of “Our Schedule to Explore the Large Area, the Heart.”

Table, much like the land of its birth, houses both influences and the influenced. Its versatility to be both a place to gather and a place to depart cannot go unnoticed. Sometimes we come together to celebrate a life or to remind ourselves what we’re thankful for, sometimes we come to this flattened obelisk to argue or say goodbye to our familiars. It’s the spirit of Table as both an artistic statement put into music, as well as the physical form where we put so much of ourselves in front of others to be seen and heard.