Intercar communication, coupled with the involvement of road sensors on the highway and in the on-ramp, can ensure not only that individual vehicles are safe but also that the entire traffic system functions efficiently.
An agreement with NASA will support the development of a 50-mile test corridor and a facility to certify the cybersecurity and air worthiness of drones.
CyPhy Works' tethered drone can hover 400 feet above the ground for extended surveillance, disaster response and other missions.
Drone authorizations and operations kicked into high gear in the weeks following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Customs and Border Protection will evaluate the capabilities of hand-launched systems in areas considered too high-risk for manned aircraft or ground personnel.
The use of quick, agile and easily launched drones allowed for safer and more efficient recovery operations.
Nibbler, the Marines' 3-D printed drone, can be controlled by a smartphone, tablet or radio and customized for carrying ammunition, gathering intelligence and conducting surveillance.
Trustability requires that humans can verify decisions made by autonomous systems.
Teams from Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School tested the dogfighting skills of their swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Challenges from unauthorized drones in the air over the hurricane disaster zone and telecommunications outages are complicating response efforts as Harvey churns through Texas.
DARPA wants to leverage machine learning to help self-piloting systems teach themselves to become safer.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are working on a platform that will let drones act as generic movable computing devices capable of communicating with each other and their controller.