Researchers in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering recently received a $389,919 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate, explore and innovate new flying mechanisms for micro air vehicles to better mimic the performance and agility of flying animals.
A representative from ABJ Drones will be giving a presentation and demonstration on the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus. The talk will primarily focus on the use of drones for emergencies, fire, rescue and forensics.
A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Robust Intelligence Program will support research to study biological flyers to create vision-guided perching in drones.
As the fall semester begins, Penn State community members are reminded of the rules and guidelines governing the flights of all unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, on campus properties or for University-affiliated activities.
Industrial engineering graduate students on a Service Engineering Academic Learning team explore drone-enabled services with a new initiative called SmartPark. This drone-based intelligent parking system aims to revolutionize the parking industry by identifying the nearest vacant parking spot in real time using an innovative mobile app.
As unmanned aerial systems, or drones, become more popular, Penn State is reminding all drone operators of regulations and guidelines governing their flights for all University-related drone operations on and off Penn State’s campuses.
All faculty, staff, students and third-party contractors — including those at the Commonwealth Campuses — wishing to operate an unmanned air system, or drone, on University property or as part of a Penn State activity must submit a request-to-fly form prior to flying.
Penn State's Unmanned Aerial Systems team is working to create an unmanned air vehicle that will compete in the Student Unmanned Aerial Systems competition, hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International in June at Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
“Introduction to RC Quadcopters and Aerial Photography” was one of more than 103 College for Kids courses held at Penn State Behrend this summer. This year marked the 23rd year for the summer enrichment program, and it was the largest yet: A total of 1,379 children between the ages of 6 and 16 participated.
Unmanned air vehicles are flying again at Penn State for research, teaching and public service under the auspices of the Office for Research Protections. A new UAV program will ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration rules and puts in place an insurance, registration and procedural infrastructure to govern the outdoor operation of unmanned air systems at the University.
A lifelong love of studying hurricanes brought Erin Munsell to graduate school at Penn State, where she and other graduate students helped NASA collect data from the eye of a hurricane using drones.
Students from Penn State and two Swedish universities have collaborated with the Volvo Group and the Swedish waste recycling company, Renova. The result is a robot that automatically collects and empties refuse bins. A drone on the roof of the refuse truck scans the area and helps the robot to find the bins.
It all began when Kyle Moyer, Anthony Rothenberger and Jason King, electro-mechanical engineering technology majors who graduated in December 2014, were enrolled in the same course, "Electromechanical Design Project Preparation and Electromechanical Design Project." They were tasked with designing and building a project, so they worked as a team to build a drone.
Ecology graduate student Jeff Kerby uses a bird's-eye view to map shrubs in Greenland, count chimpanzee nests in Tanzania, and do other research that would be difficult or impossible to do on foot.
Three Penn State Berks engineering alumni are “flying high” after receiving two different awards for their innovative plan for a start-up company, Onuku Industries, which builds customizable drones using open source software: One award was from the college and the other was from the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce.
