All Outputs (9)

Making a brick fly – a novel UAV airframe for survey applications (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2019, November). Making a brick fly – a novel UAV airframe for survey applications. Presented at Commercial UAV Show 2019, Excel, London

In this talk, Steve Wright presents the development and test of a novel UAV for the placement and subsequent retrieval of monitoring equipment in remote brownfield locations, for application in monitoring of threatened wildlife in insecure areas.

Airborne artificial intelligence in the wild (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2018, November). Airborne artificial intelligence in the wild. Presented at Commercial UAV Show 2018, Excel, London

MAVs, UAVs, Drones, Quads, call them what you will. A set of technologies has converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and cost, which has created a new industry and colossal interest from many parties who see both opportunities and threats.... Read More about Airborne artificial intelligence in the wild.

The coming electric revolution (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2017, November). The coming electric revolution. Presented at Light Aircraft Design Conference 2017, London, UK

Quads, UAVs, Drones: call them what you will. One thing is clear: power and control technologies have converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and cost, and create a new industry. The usage envelope is now expanding into safety-critical applic... Read More about The coming electric revolution.

Real-time simulation of large aircraft fuel systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S., & Grazebrook, A. (2017, October). Real-time simulation of large aircraft fuel systems. Paper presented at ESM 2017: 31st European Simulation and Modelling Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

This paper presents a method for the real-time simulation of the fluid-mechanical components of the fuel storage and transfer systems of large civil aircraft. The simulation includes modelling of fuel flow, fuel properties and related measurement sen... Read More about Real-time simulation of large aircraft fuel systems.

From flying toys to flying taxis (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2017, July). From flying toys to flying taxis. Presented at Future Transport World Conference, Cologne, Germany

Quads, UAVs, Drones: call them what you will. One thing is clear: power, communications and control technologies have converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and cost, and create a new industry. The usage envelope is now expanding into safety... Read More about From flying toys to flying taxis.

Drone avionics (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2016, June). Drone avionics. Presented at Environmental and Safety Assurance Symposium 2016, MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, UK

MAVs, UAVs, Drones, Quads, call them what you will. These machines are in the news a lot at the moment, and usually for all the wrong reasons. However, one thing is clear: a set of technologies have converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and... Read More about Drone avionics.

Testing of avionics (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2015, June). Testing of avionics. Presented at Intelligent Testing 2015, UWE, Bristol, UK

In this talk, Dr Steve Wright discusses some of the tools and methods used for performing Hardware-in-the-Loop testing of aircraft avionics. The talk will discuss the objectives of avionics test, how these tests are performed, and the equipment neede... Read More about Testing of avionics.

Model based testing of avionics (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2015, June). Model based testing of avionics. Presented at Model Driven Engineering 2015, West Sussex, England

A presentation on the use of modelling and simulation, and its role in the testing process for manned aircraft avionics.

Avionics and airborne computing (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2015, May). Avionics and airborne computing. Presented at British Computer Society Public Lecture, University of Bristol

In this talk, Dr Steve Wright looks at how an aircraft’s avionics and their associated sensor/actuator systems can fail (and they do fail), and how these systems are designed to be resilient to these failures in hardware, software and architecture. T... Read More about Avionics and airborne computing.