Guide to UAV Power Systems
ePropelled White Paper – Introduction and download link posted with permission from ePropelled. Introduction Electrical power systems are critical to a UAV’s design and operation. Weight, operating temperature and efficiency of the power components have a major influence on performance parameters such as flight duration, payload, operating ceiling and range. The choices in selecting an…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #40: Invisible faults in power lines can be revealed with a hyperspectral camera
Reprinted with permission from www.senop.fi. Can a fault be repaired already before it occurs? That is the aim of a research project initiated by Rejlers, in which the possibilities of enhancing fault location and condition management of electricity distribution networks are examined with the help of hyperspectral cameras. The camera makes the invisible visible. The…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #39 – New flying taxi and drone tech from CES2020
I got the opportunity to visit the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this year to walk the show and see what new technology was being marketing in the urban air mobility (flying taxi) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)/drone market. I thought I would summarize some of the things I saw for those that didn’t get…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #38 – Aeron Systems Blog: Driverless Tractors for Agriculture and Farming
JAN 2, 2019 – Authored by Aeron Systems and reprinted with permission (originally posted on www.aeronsystems.com DEC 26, 2018) Driverless Tractors For Agriculture And Farming Why we need driverless tractors for agriculture and farming? Farming is a labor intensive activity. Most agricultural activities require some or the other kind of manual intervention. Plowing is no exception.…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #37: Aeron Systems blog: Inertial Navigation Systems for Mobile Robots
JAN 2, 2019 – Authored by Aeron Systems and reprinted with permission (originally posted on www.aeronsystems.com DEC 11, 2018) Inertial Navigation Systems For Mobile Robots Inertial Navigation System For Mobile robots or autonomous mobile robots are being increasingly used for domestic as well as industrial and other applications. Autonomous Mobile robots are the robots which…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #36 – 2018 Year in Review
I like to close out the year with highlights and news from the various companies represented by UAV Propulsion Tech here in the US. It has been a busy and productive year as highlighted below. First, we have added several new companies and their advanced UAV hardware solutions. These include: NEW UAV Solutions: Aeron Systems…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #35 – Next Generation in Propulsion Now
NEXT GENERATION IN PROPULSION NOW ELECTRIC TURBOFANS FOR UAVS, DRONES AND LIGHT ROTORCRAFT European Sustainable Propulsion (ESP SAS), a member of the Neva Aerospace consortium, is now building electric turbofans (ETFs) for the OEM market. Now engineers can create superior drone solutions: safer, more compact and with scheduled maintenance for plug & play propulsion blocks.…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #34 – Flying cars? Forget the hype and focus on the real significance for civil and defense planning
Reprinted with permission from Neva Aerospace. Written by Robert Vergnes-Chairman & Co-Founder of Neva Aerospace Engineers have always had a lot of fun with flying car concepts but, while most of what we see these days is CGI, we dismiss it as pure hype at our peril. There’s good science and good thinking behind it.…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #32 – 2017 Year in Review
I thought it would be good to close out the year with highlights and news from the various companies represented by UAV Propulsion Tech here in the US. It has been a busy and productive year as highlighted below. First, we have added several new companies and their advanced UAV hardware solutions. These include: Eli…
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #31 – Perspectives on UAV Fly Away
I am the US rep for MicroPilot and market their autopilots to US UAV customers. I have permission from MicroPilot to re-print a Blog Post they have on their website titled “Going, Going, Gone..” from November 14, 2017 about UAV/drone fly away. Drone fly away is a big issue especially as more and more hobby,…
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