Hmm. Some researchers have been spending lots of government quality (quantity?)
money on such tests and experiments here at Nympsfield over the last two years.
Nice for us..we fly around following their (the humans) instructions whilst the
sticky tape comes undone and they (the humans) try to remember east from west
and how to translate information into directions. Lost signals, lost gizmo's,
sometimes they lose the airfield and always the gumm'nt loses the money.
Like boy scouts with a credit card.
But whilst not holding my breath waiting for a product that works (an UAV-CCTV
in the sky) I suspect that this sort of thinking is one of the pressures that
is behind the recent transponder (non) consultations.
Gavin.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Tue,
> 19 Aug 2008 15:13:49 +1000> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Unmanned Gliders To
> Seek Their Own Lift> > Various parts of autonomous soaring UAVs have been
> flown successfully,> some test flights have proven the autonomous thermalling
> algorithms,> some have conducted cross-country flights. The BAe group look to
> be> pretty advanced with their "cloud scraping" technology that uses video>
> processing to monitor clouds to determine likely lift sources.> > There are
> several research groups around the world working on this,> including a group
> I am in at DSTO here in Australia. We are working> towards test-flights early
> next year in New Zealand.> > The algorithms required to do basic soaring are
> very lightweight, taking> very little processing power.> > On Tue, 2008-08-19
> at 12:00 +0800, Texler, Michael wrote:> > Sounds a bit like April's fool.> >
> > > I am sceptical that it would work, not with the current technology. But I
> am not a tech head, so what would I know...!> > > > I would've thought that
> the weight of the computing hardware plus batteries would be quite a lot.> >
> > > Anyway, isn't 1.5kg wetware with a ~80kg support system cheaper to run,
> uses known technology, and is more fun....> > > >
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