Updates

The vehicle team has been looking into improvements for our drones. In particular, we are looking at where our drones are too strong, meaning, where we can throw away some material without compromising the integrity of our drone.

AERPAW team submitted multiple papers over the past 1-2 months related to ongoing experiments on the platform and development activities.

This month AERPAW tests two new small portable nodes and had a flight demonstration for NC State students.

AERPAW team has submitted a paper to IEEE Aerospace Conference that highlights various different ways of how raw 4G LTE I/Q measurements from AERPAW can be used for air-to-ground channel characterization.

AERPAW flew its helikite platform at NC State's Packapalooza festival

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW), funded by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of industry partners, have announced a collaboration on advancing the use of 5G for drone operations in support of smart agriculture.

The AERPAW Data-and-Compute Store has successfully migrated to a different physical facility within NC State, and the AERPAW Web Portal is being revamped to make the Experimenter’s workflow easier and more efficient.