His research interests focuses upon unmanned systems including both autonomous ground vehicles and unmanned aircraft systems. He has worked on two FAA studies involving a survey of current and near-term future technologies followed by a regulatory gap analysis to determine the regulatory issues associated with introducing these new technologies into the current FAA regulatory environment. The first of these studies focused upon command, control, and communication (C3) technologies and the second study on emergency recovery and flight termination (ERFT) systems. During the Spring and Summer 2010, Prof. Stansbury will be working with NOAA to integrate a sensor payload into an unmanned aircraft for operation in a tropical cyclone.
