US Navy Swarm UAVs

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Robin Edgar

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple “swarms” of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an intelligent network powered by EdgeFrontier platform technologies from Augusta Systems, Inc.

via NAVAIR And Augusta Demo Operations Of Multiple Swarms Of UAVs And Sensors.

Basically using one operator to control a fleet of aircraft.

The RAF did tests on swarm UAV operations from an airborne controller in a Tornado in 2007 using QinetiQ technology called Autonomy

I wonder if they were using the fluid dynamics model to control these swarms?

Booming business, steal and sell to governments

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Robin Edgar

An interesting article – if you have bank customer information, which you’ve stolen from a bank, governments will pay you for that information.

If you’re a spy you’d be shot for it. It’s not right that the Dutch government is using tax payers money on criminally attained information to find people who have foreign cash assets. In a court of law, evidence obtained this way is also not allowed and for good reason.

Booming business, steal and sell to governments « Frederik Van Lierde.

OBDII and iMFD Data Logging

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Robin Edgar

Any car built this century has an OBDII interface. This allows mechanics to plug in their laptop and get real time engine data. Lots of information about the running of the car. Nowadays there are quite a few USB / Bluetooth OBD-II connectors, which allow streaming of this data to your laptop, Garmin navigation system or iPod / iPhone.

PLX Devices Inc. sells the PLX Logger Software, as well as devices to show the data on.