An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV for short, is able to fly autonomously during all phases of flight, but has to be monitored from an operator station. In this article a better avionic system is proposed to optimize this ...

This paper applies tensegrity to create an architectural structure such as those that could be used for sportsarenas or other buildings requiring large, open spaces. This proposal generates an external tensegrity ríng witha ...

This is a technical report for the early nine test of the first stage of a minilauncher to put up to six femto-satellites in a 250 km Low Earth Orbit. These nine tests were performed in a stone quarry in order to gain ...

An innovative NDT technique is proposed for surface inspection of materials not necessarily magnetic or conductive, based on local magnetic field variations due to ferrofluid deposited in the cracks. The feasibility of the ...

This paper introduces a simulation architecture to evaluate the implementation of a va- riety of civil UAS missions with little recon guration time and overhead. This architecture, called Icarus Simulation Integrated ...

Historically, planetary and lunar rovers have been wheeled-driven. While this is usually seen as an advantage –due to the flight experience– in some cases, the unavoidable presence of gears and mobile parts can be a ...