{"id":86786,"date":"2018-10-29T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=86786"},"modified":"2019-04-12T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:01:13","slug":"latest-tech-drone-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/29\/latest-tech-drone-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest tech on display at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> drone demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_11971\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FwFWx56_bpw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Latest tech on display at Â鶹´«Ã½drone demo\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86849\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-009-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Three people standing around a landed drone, click for larger image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-009-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-009-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-009.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landing the drone, image by <abbr title=\"University of hawaii Applied Research Laboratory\">Â鶹´«Ã½ARL<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State-of-the-art, unmanned aerial, surface and underwater drones were on full display at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himb.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>  Institute of Marine Biology<\/a> on Coconut Island. This was part of the third Maritime Awareness Network of Teaming Autonomous Systems (<abbr title=\"Maritime Awareness Network of Teaming Autonomous Systems\">MANTAS<\/abbr>) event in October 2018 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/arl\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Applied Research Laboratory<\/a>, or <abbr title=\"Applied Research Laboratory\">ARL<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We focus a lot of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and basically what we do is take all the great research that\u2019s going on at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campus, we bring it to our stakeholders and say, hey, maybe you can try and use this to do something cool,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Applied Research Laboratory Director <strong>Margo Edwards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 guests, including first responders and representatives from the military, private industry and academia, took in eight different demonstrations set up around the island. In one demonstration, an <abbr>ARL<\/abbr> drone pilot flew a $250,000 LiDAR payload developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralite.net\/\">Denver-based tech company ASTRALite<\/a>, around Coconut Island. Their hybrid technology measures both topography and bathymetry, the underwater equivalent of topography. During the flights, ASTRALite used their sensor to inspect coral reefs and underwater infrastructure such as bridge pilings that surround the island.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Being able to link the technologies out there with the university researchers and the Department of Defense sponsors and those folks, having that bridge between the two, is a great service they provide,&rdquo; said ASTRALite Vice President of Operations Gerald Thompson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86847\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-007-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Two students working at a computer, click for larger image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-007-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-007-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-007.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brennan Yamamoto and Allison Wong preparing for launch, image by <abbr title=\"University of hawaii Applied Research Laboratory\">Â鶹´«Ã½ARL<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another demonstration was by a research group made up of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa undergraduate students from multiple disciplines, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a>. Their focus&#8212;unmanned, surface and underwater vehicles that can execute a variety of functions such as assess a harbor hit by a natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our students actually start on these projects, ideally, in their freshman and sophomore years. So by the time they are seniors, they are already doing graduate level contributions,&rdquo; said <strong>Brennan Yamamoto<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa PhD student.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have learned a lot from this project,&rdquo; said <strong>Allison Wong<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa mechanical engineering senior. &ldquo;There\u2019s a lot of real life applications, there\u02bbs a lot of failures, but there are also a lot of successes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Local high school students have been excelling at robotics for years, and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> projects, supported by <abbr>ARL<\/abbr> and events like this, keep that momentum going. One of <abbr>ARL<\/abbr>\u2019s ultimate goals is to create more high tech jobs in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86848\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-015-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"People staring up, click for larger image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-015-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-015-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-arl-drone-015.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel Nunes flying drone for Coconut Island guests, image by <abbr title=\"University of hawaii Applied Research Laboratory\">Â鶹´«Ã½ARL<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of things you can do by drones. Trying to protect people, trying to do humanitarian assistance, disaster relief,&rdquo; said Edwards. &ldquo;The goal is to try and keep Hawaiian kids, using their brains, to stay here and protect <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the rest of the Pacific rim.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>MANTAS <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> 2018 started on Friday, October 26, with technology presentations highlighting current capabilities and ongoing research spanning <abbr>ARL<\/abbr> partner organizations in academia and industry. The event continued through Sunday, October 28, with technology demonstrations conducted at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island in <span aria-label=\"Kaneohe\">K\u0101ne&#699;ohe<\/span> Bay. A debrief session followed on Monday, October 29, summarizing accomplishments and discussion of next steps.<\/p>\n<p>An important consideration in using drones is making sure that other users of the airspace and land or water areas are protected. Said another way, drone users, including <abbr>Â鶹´«Ã½ARL<\/abbr>, must be compliant with the &ldquo;rules of the road.&rdquo;  These fall into four broad categories&#8212;airspace access, landowner\u02bbs rights, ensuring non-hazardous operations and protection of expectations of privacy. Coconut Island in particular is embedded within Marine Corps Base <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>-controlled airspace, and requires Federal Aviation Administration approval to operate drones within.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/arl\/recent-news\/mantas-2018\/\">See more images from MANTAS <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> at the <abbr>Â鶹´«Ã½ARL<\/abbr> site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the MANTAS series or other <abbr>ARL<\/abbr> events, contact <strong>Mary Michelle Baghdady<\/strong> at <a href=\"mailto:mmbagh@arl.hawaii.edu\">mmbagh@arl.hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-of-the-art, unmanned aerial, surface and underwater drones were on full display at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute for Marine Biology on Coconut Island. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[573,53,9,56],"class_list":["post-86786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-applied-research-laboratory","tag-hawaii-institute-of-marine-biology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86786"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89052,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86786\/revisions\/89052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}