Design Archive: UAVs

Interested in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones?

Here is a collection of the Design Articles, Case Studies, Product How-To articles that have been published on Military Aerospace Designline and, in some cases, Industrial Designline and Automotive Designline, related to aerial vehicles designed to be used without a human pilot onboard over the last few years.

Check back frequently! This list will be updated as new articles arrive.

And, obviously, articles are presented in chronological order with most recent on top.


. Embedded vision: FPGAs’ next technology opportunity (7/2/2012)
By Brian Dipert, Embedded Vision Alliance, José Alvarez, Xilinx, and Mihran Touriguian, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc.

. Optimizing FPGAs for power: A full-frontal attack (6/18/2012)
By Chandra Sekar Balakrishnan, Xilinx, Inc.

. A design to generate UAV electrical power in flight (6/6/2012)
By Guy Wagner, Electronic Cooling Solutions, and Travis Mikjaniec, Mentor Graphics

. UAVs leverage IEEE-1394b data buses for success (9/7/2011)
By Richard Mourn, Astek Corp.

. NATO experiences of modeling military embedded systems (5/18/2011)
By Christopher Raistrick, Abstract Solutions Limited (Surrey, UK)

. The future of military robotics (5/24/2010)
By Emilie Kopp, National Instruments

. Extreme Design: Ultra-compact embedded computer overcomes multiple design challenges (9/1/2008)
By Thomas Roberts, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

. DARPA Challenge pushes driverless vehicles (10/7/2005)
Bruce Hall, Digital Auto Drive

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