ASD [air surveillance drones]

The ASD, Air Surveillance Drones, are solar powered planes with GPS capability and autopilot system being developed for any situation for which you need air surveillance. ASD allows for inexpensive and environmentally friendly alternative to any other air surveillance solutions while making it possible for longer flights without interruption

A lightweight, inexpensive robotic system for insect vision

Designing hardware for miniaturized robotics which mimics the capabilities of flying insects is of interest, because they share similar constraints (i.e. small size, low weight, and low energy consumption). Research in this area aims to enable robots with similarly efficient flight and cognitive abilities. Visual processing is important to flying insects' impressive flight capabilities, but currently, embodiment of insect-like visual systems is limited by the hardware systems available. Suitable hardware is either prohibitively expensive, difficult to reproduce, cannot accurately simulate insect vision characteristics, and/or is too heavy for small robotic platforms. These limitations hamper the development of platforms for embodiment which in turn hampers the progress on understanding of how biological systems fundamentally works. To address this gap, this paper proposes an inexpensive, lightweight robotic system for modelling insect vision. The system is mounted and tested on a robotic platform for mobile applications, and then the camera and insect vision models are evaluated. We analyse the potential of the system for use in embodiment of higher-level visual processes (i.e. motion detection) and also for development of navigation based on vision for robotics in general. Optic flow from sample camera data is calculated and compared to a perfect, simulated bee world showing an excellent resemblance

Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Drones in 2021

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GDP-BASED BURDEN SHARING IN NATO: THE POLITICS OF DEFENSE FINANCING

The NATO Allies agreed at the September 2014 Wales Summit to spend at least two percent of their gross domestic products (GDPs) on defense by 2024. This commitment has become a point of contention among the Allies and a distraction from the imperative of improving the Alliance’s burden sharing system. The GDP-based burden sharing policy has not proven to be effective or fair, and its implementation has been subject to national political and economic constraints. NATO as a whole has struggled to sufficiently fund the capabilities necessary for its mission effectiveness, even as individual Allies (above all, the United States) have spent enormous amounts on defense. At the same time, some Allies have made significant security contributions—e.g., basing facilities and aid for migrants—that have not shown up in their defense budgets. The disputes over burden sharing have divided the Allies and threatened to further undermine their consensus. U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has proposed an approach to burden sharing that would tailor defense spending plans to the unique contributions of individual Allies and focus on strengthening the Alliance’s cohesion and effectiveness.http://archive.org/details/gdpbasedburdensh1094559649Lieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Drones in 2018

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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of <i>Drones</i> in 2021

Rigorous peer-reviews are the basis of high-quality academic publishing [...

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Drones in 2019

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal&rsquo;s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...