As our nation looks towards the "Grand Challenges" of the future, we see an ever present desire and need to remain competitive across a rapidly expanding landscape of traditional and non-traditional technologies. This need, ...

UAVs have unique information flow requirements from technical and utilitarian perspectives, with the potential for both overwhelming amounts of data and severely limited information flows. When combined with the need for ...

The accurate, high detailed and specific meteorological information is essential for unmanned aerial operations. To avoid losses we need to reduce weather risk by a more accurate and sophisticated meteorological support ...

In this work, we provide details of the control design of a morphing UAV capable of variable wing sweep. This morphing capability is assumed to be superimposed on a GENMAV (Generic Micro Air Vehicle) configuration originally ...

This presentation from an insurance industry professional covers insuring and managing risk for unmanned air vehicles.

As the United States government moves forward to regulate commercial use of UAVs for the agricultural industry, the subsequent increased interest in UAVs by farmers and agronomists alike has created a burgeoning need for ...

Wichita State University (WSU) has designed, built, and flown over fifty (50) small and unique aircraft over the last five years. The planes vary in span and weight, respectively, between one to twelve feet and one to ...

Since 2009, the Walter H. Beech Wind Tunnel (WBWT) at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research has provided significant aerodynamic testing services in support of eleven unmanned aerial systems ...