Incident highlights long-standing concerns about drone misuse and growing focus on counter-UAS preparedness A reported theft of agricultural spraying drones in New Jersey is drawing attention from federal investigators and public safety officials. According to the New York Post, 15 drones designed for chemical spraying were stolen. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating. Details […]…
Flying a kite, you may have felt the turbulence and vibrations it faces while in the air. So you would imagine that if your kite can survive struggles in the wind, how is it that you can capture your footage. You might have wondered what makes the footage from a camera drone stable despite the wind? It is something called Electronic Image Stabilisation (EIS). EIS is one of the most critical compo…
In recent years, a host of Hollywood blockbusters — including “The Fast and the Furious 7,” “Jurassic World,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” — have included aerial tracking shots provided by drone helicopters outfitted with cameras. Those shots required separate operators for the drones and the cameras, and careful planning to avoid collisions. But […]
by Gooly (Li Yang Ku) Recently, light weighted quadrotors that equip a camera like the AR Drone becomes cheap and interesting enough to be used in research even for poor students. By combining vision algorithms with a quadrotor you can really expand your imagination even to robot fishing. SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is a pretty […]
