Keywords: Micro-air vehicle test on USS Shadwell (LSD-15) in November 2014.JPG en A student-researcher from Carnegie Mellon University remotely maneuvers a quadrotor micro-air vehicle MAV through a passageway aboard the U S Naval Research Laboratory's ex-USS Shadwell LSD-15 in Mobile Alabama USA In controlled testing the MAV autonomously flew through a smoke-filled GPS-denied area to identify a fire's location and transmit data back to the research team The U S Office of Naval Research is sponsoring studies to test MAV capabilities to provide firefighters with information about smoke thickness fire location and structural damage within the confines of a ship 2014-11-05 141105-N-PO203-327 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 191946 U S Navy photo by John F Williams PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Shadwell LSD-15 ship 1944 Firefighting in the United States Navy |