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Please confirm you are not a robot by checking the box.Fill in an online repair request form and apply for pickup.Drone ShieldDefense ShieldUk DefenseDefense FirmLondon DefenseDefense ExpoDefense SystemAnti DronesLos DronesForwardBritish engineers invent system to take control of rogue drones by By Alan Tovey A defence shield which takes control of rogue drones that could be used in terrorist attacks or by criminals to smuggle drugs has been developed by British engineers. Researchers at Luton-based electronic warfare group Selex ES have invented a system which… Students’ amphibious airplane design wins international prize, plus animation class projects on display A team of Kansas University aerospace engineering students just won an international prize for an amphibious aircraft design called the BATWinG — envisioned to transport people in coastal cities cheaper, faster and greener than other modes of public transportation. BATWinG, an acronym for “Bay Area Transport, Wing-in-Ground-effect,” took first place in the sixth annual Power Electronics Systems and Applications Conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday, according to KU aerospace engineering professor and team adviser Ron Barrett-Gonzalez.
The KU team’s competition paper presents all kinds of calculations too over-my-head (and maybe yours?) to explain here. But here are a few explanations the paper offers about why the odd looking aircraft is designed the way it is:
parrot ar drone darty The nine-passenger plane would have a flight altitude of 10 feet and a max flight speed of 120 knots. The plane features gull-wing doors envisioned for fast and easy passenger exchange, including passengers in wheelchairs. The cockpit is above and behind the passenger cabin, an unconventional configuration envisioned to improve the pilot’s lateral visibility. Propulsion is from an electric motor. There is a single aft fan — with a protective wire cage to shield the blades from birds — and “electric trolling motors” in each wingtip float. Students traveled to San Francisco in May to conduct market research for the project. Their paper even includes a business plan suggesting BATWinGs could be in the air by 2020, and that a fleet of 66 of them could break even on the investment less than two years after launching.
The BATWinG aircraft design, illustration courtesy of KU Aerospace Engineering. The students who worked on this were team leader Eric Bodlak, of Wayne, Neb.; deputy team leader Lauren Schumacher, of Rolla, Mo.; Dhruv Chawla, of Mumbai, India; Sagar Jaju, of Panjagutta, India; Jeevan Kolli, of Hyderabad, India; and Ankur Patil, of Bangalore, India. Their winning one of the world's biggest competitions for transportation systems is pride-worthy, Barrett-Gonzalez said. And who knows, maybe BATWinG could eventually save the day in congested coastal city like San Francisco? • Animation on display: Another KU class will have some fun-to-watch projects on view this week via local TV. It’s animation by students of Cathy Joritz, assistant professor in KU’s department of film and media studies. The work, created last year and this year, is by students in Joritz’s Beginning Animation and Animating with After Effects classes, she said. The clips are short, but Joritz reminds, “animation takes so much time.”
Thirty-minute compilations of student work — including animated holiday greeting cards — will air on Channel 6 at 8:30 p.m. Monday, 7 p.m. Tuesday and at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Channel 6 general manager Ann Niccum. It will play again next week, she said, at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 28, 7 p.m. Dec. 29 and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 30. Here are a few teasers, first an example of a holiday card in silhouette animation (see more students' silhouette animation here) and then a totally adorable baby elephant in claymation (see more claymation here). Courtney Sanchez Holiday Card by Cathy Joritz's Student Animation "Baby Elephant & Friend" by Katelyn Marlin KU’s proposed drone policy ruffles campus drone ‘experts’ Kansas University is in the process of creating a policy to clamp down on drone use on campus, and at least one aerospace engineering professor has big concerns about it. For one, said Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, a professor of aerospace engineering who has patented multiple drones, none of KU’s aerospace faculty — KU’s experts on drones — were consulted.
“The policy itself has really, really serious problems,” said Barrett-Gonzalez, who brought up the issue at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting. “It’ll allow the flight of dangerous items while disallowing the flight of harmless aircraft ... It’ll hamper research really unnecessarily. It’ll violate academic freedom.” KU Public Affairs initiated the policy, intended to ensure operators had the proper FAA approval before flying drones on campus, said Amy Smith, KU Policy Office Director. “They became very concerned when there were drones flying over commencement.” (More recently, I can tell you there were sure a lot of drones that buzzed up into the sky on West Campus right before McCollum Hall imploded last week.) Before kickoff of the Kansas University football game against Texas, an unauthorized drone helicopter with a camera attached was seen flying over Memorial Stadium, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Deans, provosts and department chairs were informed about the proposed UAS — or unmanned aerial systems — policy via email and invited to share feedback, according to an email provided by Barrett-Gonzalez.
The draft policy at this point does not contain an effective date. The policy would require anyone wishing to operate a UAS on or over campus to get prior written approval from KU, according to a draft proposal. Personal and commercial drone users would have to contact KU Marketing Communications, while users flying drones for university educational and research purposes would go through the Vice Chancellor for Research’s office. The proposed policy says UAS operators must demonstrate “a baseline level of proficiency in takeoff, landing and maneuvering.” It specifies that operators must comply with all applicable FAA, state and local laws. And it says KU has the right to “immediately terminate” the operation of a UAS that interferes with campus operations, poses hazards to people or facilities, or has not received proper approval. (It does not specify a method for “termination” — is anyone else picturing KU police officers with harpoon nets? — but maybe that could be an engineering class project.)
Barrett-Gonzalez said he believes the proposed policy would infringe on personal freedom — including campus visitors who just want to fly tiny toy drones for fun in an open area — and that unnecessary “encumbrances” would violate the academic freedom of faculty and students working on drones. He also said he believes the policy would duplicate regulatory functions of the FAA. Barrett-Gonzalez suggested disbanding the policy committee, forming a new one with the Aerospace Engineering Department chairman at the helm, and starting over on the policy. Fellow Faculty Senate Executive Committee members agreed Barrett-Gonzalez should submit feedback to the policy office and that Faculty and University Senate presidents should also bring up with administrators the issue of KU policymaking without consulting university governance. “This is part of the problem with 'university policies' that suddenly emerge,” said Faculty Senate president Tom Beisecker. “From my point of view it should be reviewed by governance.”