Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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The drone industry is growing rapidly; there are an increasing number of use cases for drones, from hobbyists flying in the park, to commercial operations such surveillance, data gathering and parcel delivery. Drones wil...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: FLOCK LIMITED
The project is focused on analyzing and minimizing the risk of drone flights, which directly addresses the question about the risk posed by unmanned aerial vehicles.
SafePilot is a ground-breaking concept for the safe operation of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in civilian airspace. Small UAVs have been successfully deployed in the military domain to provide surveillance in ho...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: BLUE BEAR LIMITED
The project aims to provide inherently safe navigation for small UAVs, which is directly relevant to the question about the risk posed by different types of unmanned systems.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly making the headlines through high-profile military deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the general public remains largely unaware of what is going on today in th...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
The project aims to dispel myths about UAVs and provide information about their current state of the art and applications, which partially addresses the question about the risk posed by unmanned systems.