Drone Games

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High School English was never one of my favorite subjects. In fact, I learned more grammar rules by studying Spanish. But I did enjoy creative writing. As an aspiring engineer, creativity was essential, so it was natural that my creative bent would be expressed in terms of technical stories, especially science-fiction short stories. Who would have guessed that my career would thrust me into cutting-edge research, essentially creating new things and demonstrating capabilities that had never been done before? While others were reading science fiction, I was living it.

My career has had very few limits. If I could get an idea funded, I could implement it without regard for company product lines or corporate bottom lines. Such was the nature of full-time research at one of the world’s top university-based research institutes.

I started out designing remote sensing systems but later gravitated to aerial robotics. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combine aeronautics with IT. Give a UAV the ability to “reason,” and you have an aerial robot. That was my passion. A flying robot that could act intelligently on its own — as if piloted by a human — but with no human intervention.

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