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What Drones May Come: The Flight Plan For The Future Of UAVs

Brandon Stark
February 16, 2017

Get a taste of a drone-enabled future by looking at innovations and explorations from researchers, students and employees at one of the nation's largest university systems, led by Brandon Stark. He's the founding director of the University of California Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety, which provides support and training for regulatory compliance and the safe operation of drones across the University of California system.

 

 
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Energy

These Drones Have A Flair For Flares: UAVs Are Taking Over The Dangerous Work Of Inspecting Industrial Assets

Bruce Watson
February 14, 2017
If you’ve ever driven by a petroleum refinery, you’ve probably seen a flare stack “on fire.” What looks like shooting flames are the waste gases produced during chemical manufacturing burning off. At the stacks’ mouths, the heat can reach into the hundreds of degrees, and the metal is under constant, intense pressure. The slightest crack or the smallest amount of corrosion in the wrong place could cause a fire that would shut down the plant — not to mention endanger the lives of the people who work there.
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This Drone Visited The World's No. 1 Hydropower Plant. Here's What It Found.

Tomas Kellner
June 23, 2016
The American Society of Civil Engineers calls Brazil’s Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The massive structure holds a row of 20 giant turbines, half of them manufactured by GE Renewable Energy. In 2008, they generated 94,684 megawatts, then the largest amount of power ever from a single dam. Itaipu alone supplies Brazil with a quarter of its power, and Paraguay with 90 percent of its electricity needs.
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Where drone meets industry

June 22, 2016
Australia’s natural-gas developers are striving to become ultra-competitive in a challenging global market. For Shell Australia’s newly acquired Queensland Gas Company (QGC), an 18-kilogram unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a 3-metre wingspan represents the kind of collaboration and innovation that the industry needs in order to propel efficiencies to the next order of magnitude. Never before have Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) operations been commercially applied on such a scale.
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Tapping into the data flow: innovation leaders float big ideas

June 22, 2016
As data billows into the Cloud and innovation leapfrogs the impossible, stakeholders are seeking to shape the future and deliver solutions that make a difference. The 2016 GE/CSIRO Digital Industrial Series brings together the worlds of research and entrepreneurship, of business and industry to create a confluence of ideas that deliver!
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Ambition on the agenda at D61+LIVE

April 07, 2016
It had all the wonder of the Royal Easter Show, but with science and technology taking the place of animals and rides. There were robots, drones, models, modelling, a mammoth mobile emergency-services integrated-communications truck and, on the main stage, a grand parade of inspiring minds and ambitious ideas. (Oh, and there were food stations serving pulled-pork tacos, steamed dumplings, noodle boxes and mini Wagyu beef burgers—streets ahead of the usual sideshow fare.)
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And The UAV Goes To: The Making Of The Trophy Drone At The New York City Drone Film Festival

March 04, 2016
The footage captured by drones used to be the stuff of stunt pilots or computer-generated effects: a bird's-eye view of a scientist standing disconcertingly close to a lake of bubbling lava; an elevated view of an epic nighttime ski session featuring an athlete outfitted in a glowing suit; being eye to eye with a worker fixing an antenna hundreds of feet above the ground.
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Eyes in the Sky: #DRONEWEEK Will Beam Aerial Footage From GE’s Boot Camp for Jet Engines on Periscope

July 17, 2015
Before a new GE machine design gets cleared for production, it has to go through rigorous testing and endure conditions it will likely never see in service – from golf ball-size hail to exploding jet engine fan blades. In the U.S., the company’s testing facilities are sometimes located in remote corners of the country and even employees rarely see more than a couple.
But that’s about to change. Starting Monday, GE will use drones to beam footage from five testing sites and factories to everyone with the Periscope app on its channel @generalelectric.
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Drone Brain Maker Airware Gets a Lift as GE Climbs on Board

April 19, 2015
Last November, when GE invested in the drone technology company Airware, Alex Tepper, managing director at GE Ventures, said his company wanted to be part of the commercial drone space and “help it grow.”
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Commercial Drones Set to Soar as Investors Climb Aboard

December 05, 2014
Starting in the late 1980s, the Pentagon launched a top-secret constellation of two-dozen navigation satellites designed to guide U.S. nuclear missiles precisely to their targets. Then the Cold War ended, the technology shed the uniform and put on civilian clothes. We know it as the Global Positioning System (GPS), and millions of drivers, hikers and bikers use it daily to find their bearings and map their workout routines.
 
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