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Engineering@Southampton Showcase

By Stephen Prior |

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

By Stephen Prior |

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

By Stephen Prior |

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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Sense and Avoid UAV

By Stephen Prior |

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

By Stephen Prior |

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

By Stephen Prior |

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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NCIV Exhibition – Delft – 2SEAS

By Stephen Prior |

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Civilian Drones – BBC Radio 4 – 5 Sept 2013

By Stephen Prior |

Civilian Drones  

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Flying Wing Test

By Stephen Prior |

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gQ6IGg7gZk&feature=youtu.be  

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AUVSI/UKTI DSO Symposium, London

By Stephen Prior |

UV Online UK furthers unmanned engineering efforts 03 May 2013 – 13:43 by Beth Stevenson in London

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