{"id":143,"date":"2014-11-14T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.talklou.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:48:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:48:25","slug":"talk-on-drones-to-be-held-on-u-of-l-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Talk on Drones to Be Held on U of L Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"documentFirstHeading\"><\/h1>\n<div id=\"plone-document-byline\" class=\"documentByLine\"><span class=\"documentAuthor\"> By John R. Karman III, communications and marketing for<em> U of L Today<\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"documentModified\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"documentByLine\">http:\/\/louisville.edu\/uofltoday\/campus-news\/talk-will-focus-on-drones-in-logistics<\/div>\n<p class=\"documentDescription\"><span id=\"parent-fieldname-description\" class=\"\"> Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, once were exclusively for military purposes. Today, a hobbyist can buy one at the local mall. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\" class=\"plain\">\n<p>The increasing accessibility of drones has the commercial sector looking to capitalize and companies such as Amazon.com Inc. are exploring their use for small parcel delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Murray, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at Auburn University, does research on problems encountered by industry and the military. His studies have included looking at the capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles in logistics and surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Murray will give a 1 p.m. talk Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Chao Auditorium in the University of Louisville\u2019s Ekstrom Library. The talk, \u201cDrones in Logistics: From the Battlefield to Your Front Door,\u201d is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Parking is available at the Speed Art Museum garage or in the lot at Fourth Street and Cardinal Boulevard near Kurz Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Murray\u2019s lecture will explore the state-of-the-art in drone technology and will focus on the operational challenges and opportunities associated with incorporating them into logistics systems. He also will discuss ongoing projects in Auburn\u2019s Unmanned Systems Lab.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is sponsored by UofL\u2019s Logistics and Distribution Institute. LoDI is a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to improving the practice of logistics.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/uofllogistics.org\/?project=seminar-drones-in-logistics\">the LoDI website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John R. Karman III, communications and marketing for U of L Today http:\/\/louisville.edu\/uofltoday\/campus-news\/talk-will-focus-on-drones-in-logistics Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, once were exclusively for military purposes. Today, a hobbyist can buy one at the local mall. The increasing accessibility of drones has the commercial sector looking to capitalize and companies such&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/talklou.com\/?p=143\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Talk on Drones to Be Held on U of L Campus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,23,22],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ev","tag-drones","tag-ekstrom-library","tag-university-of-louisville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talklou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}