What is it about technology and Aussie bedrock bandage AC/DC? In July a computer drudge led to the band's clue Thunderstruck belting out at top volume in an Iranian nuclear ability plant. Now AC/DC's signature hit Highway to Hell is benumbed on a laser axle that's getting bounced off a bombinate in mid-flight. When the axle is reflected to a arena sensor the abounding celebrity of the music is reconstructed after a cymbal blast out of place.
Don't worry, it's not a new sonic weapon. To accomplish drones lighter and and accomplish best assay missions after refuelling, Yoann Thueux and colleagues at EADS Innovation Works in Newport, UK, abandon the abundant radio accessories and antennas acclimated to axle acquired video aback to base. Instead, they are developing a laser reflector alleged Dazzle that can artlessly add the drone's acquired video abstracts to a laser axle bounced off the craft's abdomen by a tracking arrangement up to 2 kilometres away.
After the laser axle enters the reflector, it passes through a cellophane switch, alleged a ablaze modulator, that adds the agenda zeroes and ones of the video abstracts to the beam. The ablaze again hits a mirror and is reflected aback to the atom it came from - accustomed the video data. The tech will acquiesce a acceleration addition to 1 gigabit per additional - calmly acceptance faster supply of HD video, which struggles to top 20 megabits per additional with radio frequencies.
The reflector and its arena UAV tracking arrangement began tests on a anachronistic aerodrome at a above Royal Air Force abject in Pershore, UK, endure week. The aboriginal analysis aimed to see if the arrangement could artlessly reflect an encoded laser axle from a affective eight-rotor helicopter drone, the Okto from Mikrocopter of Germany.
Thueux anticipation Highway to Hell a abundant best of abstracts to beck on the laser. "It was on my iPod and I anticipation it would be a acceptable song to go aboriginal because I apperceive it absolutely by heart. I'd be the aboriginal to acquaint if the technology was not alive appropriately on playback."
So what tunes ability will fly are next? "I appear to be in a band, so maybe one of our tracks," says Thueux. "But a aide is aswell suggesting Fly Me To The Moon."
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