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image: Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory and the Air Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy Lab at Pennsylvania State University, demonstrate autonomous soaring algorithms used to keep ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) says it recently completed testing of cooperative autonomous soaring algorithms used to keep unmanned sailplanes aloft for sustained flight durations. The ...

The US military could be edging closer to fielding swarms of lightweight sailplanes for gathering intelligence or relaying signals, after validating autonomous soaring algorithms coded by the Naval ...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Vehicle Research Section and Photovoltaic Section are building on the proven concept of autonomous cooperative soaring of ...

The Naval Research Laboratory is taking a cue from nature in developing unmanned surveillance aircraft that don’t use much power to stay aloft for hours at a time—and still communicate with each other ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) --The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has completed a series of flight tests for unmanned aerial vehicles, demonstrating the concept of cooperative soaring using shared data.

When the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) selected Alta Devices, a Hanergy Company, as the solar solution for the prototype Hybrid Tiger UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Project, I decided to see what ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with the Air Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy (AVIA) Lab at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), completed testing of cooperative autonomous ...

Scientists are building on the proven concept of autonomous cooperative soaring of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which enables long endurance flights of unmanned sailplanes that use the power of ...

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