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Low Weight Flight Controller Design
An issued NASA patent from the Technology Transfer catalog.
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Overview
NASA's Langley Research Center has developed a new sensing and control system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that allows for semi-autonomous flight. With this technology, pilots need not leave the ground to conduct routine monitoring and surveillance quickly and cost-effectively. Such systems are particularly useful during long flight segments or over remote locations, or for scientific applications such as atmospheric monitoring or crop monitoring, which might require long and repeated sampling in a specific pattern. The small, lightweight technology can be quickly adapted to your specific configuration.