Mechanical Engineering Magazine: Drones for Peace

UPDATE: The article is now available online at www.memagazine.org. Happy reading!

If any of you are members of ASME, you will find that the April 2011 (Vol. 133, No. 4) edition of Mechanical Engineering Magazine has the feature article "Drones for Peace: Working in Teams to Fight Fires or Find Lost Children." (www.memagazine.org)

The article is written by two PhD candidates at UC Berkeley (Brandon Basso and Joshua Love), as well as the James Marshall Wells Professor of Mechanical Engineering at same institution (J. Karl Hedrick). All three of the authors focus on drones as their field of research, and the article reflects this.

From the article: With UAVs becoming both cheap and easy to build, the field's leading edge is now systems - squadrons of two or five or ten aircraft, collaborating to achieve a common goal. The ambition is to use teams of flying robots to develop vision-based maps of large areas, track moving objects, fuse information from multiple aircraft and multiple sensors, and perform high-level task planning.

It's a fascinating read, and if your local library (or M.E.) has a subscription I highly recommend you check this one out! If you cannot lay hands on the hard copy, the ME Magazine website may carry the feature article online (it has yet to be updated to the April 2011 edition, as of this posting).

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Brandon Basso July 8, 2011 at 3:09pm

No problem:
http://vehicle.me.berkeley.edu/~bbasso/papers/MEapril2011_article_s...
S.G. Sutter June 27, 2011 at 9:17pm

Hi, Brandon. Hope all is going well with your research. Welcome to DIYdrones!

I'd like to have a PDF of the article for my records. Would it be possible for you to post a link so others can get a copy?
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Brandon Basso June 27, 2011 at 5:03pm

Thanks all for the comments, I really appreciate it. I'd be happy to send a pdf scan of the article as it appeared in the magazine (better layout than the online version).
Paul Marsh April 9, 2011 at 5:37pm

Thanks for posting the update with the link. Good article. I love the retro-cover!
S.G. Sutter April 8, 2011 at 4:01pm

Yes, I posted this when the magazine first came out, then updated the post when I saw ASME had put it online for anyone to read.

I did not know that editing a post for an update would bump it back up to the top.

Sorry about that.
Joe Bloeski April 8, 2011 at 3:23pm

Wasn't this posted a week ago???
S.G. Sutter April 8, 2011 at 2:41pm

They have released the article to the ASME Magazine website, for those who are interested.
Kirill March 29, 2011 at 3:44am

Really, it is very old-fashioned style. However, I'd like to read this article.
Earl March 28, 2011 at 10:23pm

That front page looks like a front page from popular mechanics 1960 era

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