CORVALLIS, Ore. — There’s a lot that can go wrong in using unmanned aircraft to do survey work for research.
Weather can make a scheduled flight impossible, sometimes software controlling the vehicles has mysterious hiccups or the satellites that guide the vehicle autonomously through a planned route can’t be reached — or an important component is forgotten in the lab.
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