MIT UAV soaring technique

On Dec 6, 12:13*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:40:53 -0800, bildan wrote:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...6103/?p1=Blogs

I smell a certain lack of preliminary research: any RC glider pilot will
tell you that pressure sensing TE varios for models have been available
for a long time. It would seem to be a lot easier and less power-hungry
to sample one of these than to calculate climb rate from GPS output.

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martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
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Whether this blogger has a good understanding of thermalling technique
or not, it's interesting that UAV makers (Presumably for the military)
have an interest in UAV's that automatically find and use thermals.
It makes sense they should be interested. Maybe thermal finding
instrumentation will come out of it.

Autonomous Soaring has been around for awhile.

Take a look at:

http://soaring.goosetechnologies.com/

Cheers,

Andrew