{"id":1228,"date":"2019-06-08T00:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T00:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2019-06-08T00:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T00:41:05","slug":"amazon-prime-air-funds-autonomous-drone-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2019\/06\/08\/amazon-prime-air-funds-autonomous-drone-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Air funds autonomous drone research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/files\/2018\/10\/cao3-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1208\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/files\/2018\/10\/cao3-lg-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yue Cao\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2018\/10\/cao3-lg-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2018\/10\/cao3-lg-768x969.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2018\/10\/cao3-lg-812x1024.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Yue Cao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, is collaborating with Amazon Prime Air to make UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) delivery a reality. Prime Air promises to deliver a package to the customer within 30 minutes after receiving the order.\u00a0 Cao will help develop an advanced propulsion system that is more reliable and efficient. This all-electric flying vehicle will have to address multi-disciplinary challenges in the areas of power electronics, motor drives, energy storage, and cooling.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery\u00a0 program was featured in the article,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/amazon-promises-drone-delivery-months\/story?id=63494811\">&#8220;Amazon expects &#8216;Prime Air&#8217; drone delivery &#8216;within months&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; by ABC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yue Cao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, is collaborating with Amazon Prime Air to make UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) delivery a reality. Prime Air promises to deliver a package to the customer within 30 minutes after receiving the order.\u00a0 Cao will help develop an advanced propulsion system that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,523],"tags":[741260,741261,1264,916414,2499,155,101813,741255],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-amazon-prime-air","tag-autonomous","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-drone","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-school-of-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science","tag-yue-cao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}