Innovative Drone Usage Month - July

Every month this year we’re going to be presenting you with some of the most extraordinary uses for Drones in the 21st Century. We’re going to cover the weird, the wacky and most innovative ideas and concepts for the drone industry. This month we’re travelling to the States.

Airfield Bird Clearing Drone

Bird have always been a problem for airfield, its well known that a bird can take out a jet engine, or even two jet engines if there is a flock of birds. A group of engineers at University of Illinois have developed a robotic falcon. It is hoped that they could use this to scare away birds from hazardous areas on airfield. See the robotic falcon in action below:

For perching on a stationary target, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSctVKEwAGM The work by Aditya Paranjape, Joseph Kim, and Soon-Jo Chung at the Aerospace Robotics and Control Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://publish.illinois.edu/aerospacerobotics/ Narration by Jenny Roderick at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The technical details of this work can be found in the following papers.