New research finds that autonomous vehicles can gain most of the benefits of adaptive route planning with only a few course corrections For an autonomous drone searching for a missing person, new information can change the mission. An image or sensor reading may suggest that the aircraft should search somewhere else. But how often does the drone need to reconsider its … [Read more...] about Smarter Drone Searches May Require Less Replanning, Not More
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Defense-Proven Drone Technology Moves Into the Commercial Market
Utopia Compression brings AI-based passive sensing, navigation and autonomy solutions developed for defense applications to BVLOS, counter-UAS and other commercial drone operations By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill Utopia Compression, an advanced technology company with more than two decades of experience providing services to the defense sector, is looking to branch … [Read more...] about Defense-Proven Drone Technology Moves Into the Commercial Market
Beyond the Drone and Dock: Building a System for Autonomous Operations
SkyfireAI, DBOX, Drone Nerds and XTI Aerospace combine infrastructure, software and integration expertise for U.S. deployment SkyfireAI and Lithuania-based DBOX have formed a new collaboration aimed at advancing integrated autonomous drone operations in the United States. The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during the Lithuania–U.S. Business Forum in … [Read more...] about Beyond the Drone and Dock: Building a System for Autonomous Operations
Helping Drones Navigate without GPS
Massachusetts company Skyline Nav AI uses cameras and sensors to guide aircraft when GPS signals are blocked or disrupted By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill Since it first began to be widely adopted for commercial use in the 1980s, GPS technology has become ubiquitous, helping to facilitate the transportation of everything from passenger cars, to oceangoing ships, to … [Read more...] about Helping Drones Navigate without GPS
When Drones Generate 6,000 Images, Who Looks at Them? AI’s Real Role in Commercial Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo panelists point to data analysis, scale and human oversight as the near-term value of artificial intelligence. As commercial drone programs scale, artificial intelligence may be solving a problem that drones themselves helped create: too much data for people to reasonably review. That was one of the key takeaways from a session at Commercial UAV Expo in … [Read more...] about When Drones Generate 6,000 Images, Who Looks at Them? AI’s Real Role in Commercial Drone Operations
