Author Archives: Stephen Prior
Tethered Drones for Persistent Aerial Surveillance Applications
August 11, 2015
Defence Global Article
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Engineering@Southampton Showcase
June 14, 2015
The University of Southampton held their Autonomous Systems showcase event at the Royal Academy of Engineering in Central London on Tuesday, 9 June 2015. During the day, we were able to demonstrate our Tethered UAS (AETHER) with permission from the CAA and an enhanced permission for flight in Central London from NATS.
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AETHER – Tethered Observation Platform
April 9, 2015
AETHER – A joint project between the University of Southampton and Cardinal Security Ltd, to develop a tethered UAS will be presented and exhibited at the SkyTech Conference and Exhibition on 24th April 2015 at the Business Design Centre, London. SkyTech 2015 is a one-day event serving as a platform to define, understand and ultimately […]
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DARPA Upward Falling Payloads program
July 10, 2014
Inspired by the recent DARPA call, two teams of MSc Unmanned Vehicle Systems Design (UVSD) Students at the University of Southampton have been developing systems that could be deployed for up to six months in the littoral zones of the world at depths of up to 50 m. Inside the pods are Quadrotor UAVs which can […]
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Eurobot World Final – Dresden, Germany
June 18, 2014
Three teams from the University of Southampton represented the UK at the World Finals which were held in Dresden, Germany 6-9 June 2014. Our top team finished in joint 9th position in the world. A great result and well done to team Water Buffaloes: http://www.eurobot.org/eurobot/2014/results Robson, Nicholas A Aisvaran, Chandramohan Salimin, Muhammad S Schult, David […]
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University of Southampton (Internal Eurobot Final)
June 18, 2014
The UoS Final took place two weeks after the Eurobot (UK) Final, at the Highfield campus on Friday, 16 May 2014. The Results are listed here: Eurobot 2014 – Match Schedule and Results 2014
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Eurobot (UK) Final 2014
May 1, 2014
Engineering students from the University of Southampton have taken the top three places in the national final of a robotics competition. Teams of students and young people taking part in the UK finals of the ‘Eurobot’ competition were tasked with designing, building and programming robots to compete against others. Each team had to programme their […]
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Sense and Avoid UAV
March 23, 2014
Final year individual project to develop a Sense and Avoid system for a small multi-rotor UAV by James Perrett. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TByi7j-Lgc&feature=youtu.be
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Isle of Wight Crossing
February 20, 2014
In conjunction with the BBC South production team (Simon Marks, Kevin Bird and Dolly Gulliford), the team at the ASL planned to cross from the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth using a Small Unmanned Aircraft on Friday, 9th May 2014 during a live TV broadcast. The distance from Ryde to Southsea is 4.4 nautical miles (7.1 km) and […]
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Autonomous and Advanced Systems Showcase
February 2, 2014
This event was held at the University of Southampton on 3 February 2014 and was attended by over 100 delegates from all over the UK.
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