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Producing leaders in the UAS industry

RECUV provides hands-on experience for undergraduate and graduate students, helping create future leaders of the UAS industry. RECUV students have performed ground-breaking research, created innovative technologies, and gone on to start UAS companies.

Summer deployments take RECUV across the globe.

Deployments in Summer 2015 will take RECUV researchers across the globe. Starting from our own backyard in western Boulder County to other destinations that include Tornado Alley in the U.S. Great Plains; at the RISH radar observatory in Shigaraki, Japan; and above the Arctic Circle at Oliktok Point, AK.

Innovative industry collaboration

RECUV is a founding site of the NSF-supported Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, the only Industry/University Cooperative Research Center devoted to providing innovative solutions to key technical challenges and superb training for future leaders in the unmanned aircraft systems industry.

Novel missions and applications

RECUV conducts novel missions in complex atmospheric conditions. For example, the RECUV Skywalker and Datahawk UAS are being used to sample the wakes of wind turbines at the NREL National Wind Technology Center.

The University of Colorado has more FAA COAs than any other university

RECUV is a pioneer in the nomadic use of unmanned aircraft and deploys our systems in full compliance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations. RECUV has over 28 FAA Certificates of Authorization (COAs), more than any other U.S. university, for 12 different UAS with access to over 100,000 square miles of airspace.

Cooperative control to track ground targets

Command and control of teams of multiple unmanned aircraft

RECUV is able to conduct nomadic operations with full FAA approval to operate multiple UAS simultaneously in the same airspace. This capability enables research in such areas as cooperative control, net-centric operations, distributed sensing, autonomy, ad-hoc communication, and human-UAS interaction.

CU-Boulder leads international unmanned aircraft testing event at Pawnee Grassland

An international team of scientists and students led by RECUV used multiple unmanned aircraft to simultaneously intercept the outflow of a thunderstorm at Colorado’s Pawnee National Grassland in August 2014.

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The Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) is a university, government, and industry partnership dedicated to the development and application of unmanned vehicle systems. RECUV research encompasses scientific experiments, commercial applications, mitigation of natural and man-made disasters, security, and national defense. RECUV draws faculty and students from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science. We address technical challenges in a collaborative environment that integrates the traditional aerospace engineering disciplines of aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, navigation, control, and platform design with networks, telecommunications, robotics, and security.

The goals of RECUV are to:

Engineer new mobile sensing systems that integrate sensors and unmanned vehicles.
Stimulate strategic discussions among local, national, and international leaders.
Facilitate the adoption of these systems by working with regulatory agencies to lead the way to commercial development.
Increase public awareness of unmanned vehicles and their applications.
Educate and train the next generation of innovative and multidisciplinary engineers.

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Introducing AUTalks

Feb. 17, 2020

AUTalks is a new seminar series brought to you by the researchers in RECUV, IRISS, and other Autonomous Systems initiatives. The purpose of the series is to encourage collaboration and idea-sharing. This will be done through a series of short presentations introducing the work done by the different AUT groups...

RECUV student awarded 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

March 23, 2017

Congratulations to RECUV graduate student Katherine Glasheen for being awarded the 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Katherine's research focuses on network enabled-autonomy for aerial robots - using cloud robotics in the clouds. The goal of Katherine's work is to expand the autonomous capabilities of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) through...

RECUV faculty named one of Forbes 30 Under 30.

Feb. 3, 2017

RECUV faculty member Daniel Szafir was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for his work on human-robot interaction and human-computer interaction. Dan runs the A TLAS Interactive Robotics and Novel Technologies ( IRON ) Lab . Since joining the University of Colorado in 2015, he has quickly grown the...

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