Platform One
June 12th 2025
June 12th 2025
June 12th 2025
June 12th 2025
June 12th 2025
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dossier
Dossier
Groupe Danielson Trident 100 TD2 turbodiesel
Just over 10 years ago, we featured Groupe Danielson’s Trident 100 TD2 engine, a 1.1 L, inline three-cylinder turbodiesel designed specifically for the UAV market. Since the company’s 2014 public launch of the Trident series of engines at AUVSI Xponential...
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Video systems
Jun 2025
Motor controllers
May 2025
Lidar
May 2025
Dossier
High Eye Airboxer
In the age of high-tech systems, where established OEMs and new start-ups alike compete to grab headlines with claims of what their products can do, it is easy to fall prey to the temptation to constantly replace parts and components with the latest...
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Connectors
May 2025
Swarming
May 2025
Launch & recovery
May 2025
Dossier
Alpha-Otto REV Force
We featured Michigan-based Strange Development in 2020 (see Issue 33), for its two-stroke, inline, two-cylinder, spark-ignited REVolution engine, integrating a rotary exhaust valve (REV) to leverage forced induction when adjusting its dynamic compression ratio...
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Embedded computing tech
May 2025
Sense and Simulation
Feb 2025
Ground control stations
Feb 2025
Dossier
LOXO Alpha & Digital Driver
As far as harsh proving grounds for autonomy go, Switzerland sets the bar high. A mountainous nation, many Swiss highways and other intercity roads pass through tunnels that blot out GNSS signals and create cramped, traffic-congested spaces that are deeply...
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Transponders
Jan 2025
UTM
Jan 2025
Antennas
Jan 2025
Dossier
Suter Industries
With regulations in the EU aimed at curbing and eventually eliminating internal combustion engines in road vehicles, the future of European engines – and particularly the expertise and innovative capacity around them – is likely to lie not amidst the automotive...
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Data Storage
Jan 2025
Battery technology
Jan 2025
Autopilots
Jan 2025
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ECUs
Jun 2025
Video systems
Jun 2025
Motor controllers
May 2025
Lidar
May 2025
Connectors
May 2025
Swarming
May 2025
Launch & recovery
May 2025
Embedded computing tech
May 2025
Sense and Simulation
Feb 2025
Ground control stations
Feb 2025
Transponders
Jan 2025
UTM
Jan 2025
Antennas
Jan 2025
Data Storage
Jan 2025
Special Reports
PS
UAS obsolescence and recycling
Although the rapid proliferation of small UASs for both consumer and professional use is a sign of a healthy and growing market, it would be a mistake to overlook the long-term implications of their obsolescence. Failure to manage these technologies...
In Operation
Event 38 E455
Experienced commercial UAV operator Phoenix Air Unmanned (PAU) announced in early January that it had used a single Event 38 E455 fixed-wing VTOL aircraft to complete a 320 mile pipeline patrol in just 7.6 flight hours for Shell Pipeline Company...
Show Report
Xponential Europe 2025 part 2
Although the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International’s first European Xponential show was a long time in the making – and represented a risky venture – all parties are now in full agreement that producing a European show...
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Battery technology
Jan 2025
Autopilots
Jan 2025
IMUS, gyros and accelometers
Jan 2025
Radio and telemetry
Jan 2025
Thermal imaging
Jan 2025
Real-time operating systems
Jan 2025
Cable harnesses
Feb 2025
Video encoding
Feb 2025
Servos
Feb 2025
Power management
Feb 2025
Fuel systems
Feb 2025
Additive manufacturing
Feb 2025
New Products
New Product
GNSS module cuts size
Septentrio has developed a series of high-accuracy positioning satellite navigation receivers that are the smallest available for their performance. The mosaic-g5 P1, mosaic-G5 P3 multi-frequency GNSS receivers and mosaic-G5 P3H GNSS...
New Product
Lidar for autonomous Caterpillar quarry trucks
Caterpillar is to integrate Lidar laser sensor technology from Luminar into its next generation autonomous trucks. The Luminar Lidar technology will be introduced in the Cat Command trucks for hauling, initially targeted for quarry and aggregate operations...
New Product
Folded zoom for UAV thermal camera
MKS Instruments has developed a lightweight, compact, continuous zoom lens designed specifically for thermal cameras on UAVs. The Ophir FoldIR 25-275 mm f/5.5 MWIR continuous zoom lens is designed for the latest cooled 15 μm VGA...
New Product
UAV navigation without GNSS
AgEagle Aerial Systems has developed a vision system for providing navigation without satellite signals. The eBee VISION software provides autonomous position updates with map referencing to provide precise navigation, even in GNSS-denied...
New Product
Encoders for AGV designs
Megatron has developed two encoders for large autonomous ground vehicles such as forklift trucks. The encoders not only detect the steering angle but also the speed of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The kit encoders of the ETx25K series...
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Additive manufacturing
Feb 2025
Sonar systems
Mar 2025
Image sensors
Mar 2025
Solar power
Mar 2025