iPhone Controlled Military Drones

clipped from www.inquisitr.com Next up – your own iPhone controlled drone clipped from singularityhub.com Commanding Military Drones - Now iPhone Has an App for That UAVs and other military drones are an important part of the modernization of the US Army. The Raven drone is a light-weight surveillance platform that can be launched by hand. Unfortunately, it’s operating controls are a heavy briefcase like enclosure that has to be lugged around. That sort of discontinuity irks HAL team leader Prof. Missy Cummings. Cummings was once a F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot for the Navy and saw the UAVs as a great way to prove that drone control could be light-weight, simple, and elegant. Her students were the ones that pointed out they could use iPhones. (They would all have to receive iPhones as part of their research, of course). clipped from www.youtube.com MAV-VUE Zero Order Flight Test clipped from www.youtube.com MAV-VUE First Order Flight Test clipped from www.geeks.co.uk

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Next up – your own iPhone controlled drone
Commanding Military Drones - Now iPhone Has an App for That | Singularity Hub
YouTube - MAV-VUE Zero Order Flight Test
YouTube - MAV-VUE First Order Flight Test
MIT working on iPhone Drone app | geeks.co.uk
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