It was never Burke’s intention to obtain the Guinness World Record, and he only found out that they qualified after he and his team had already flown the drone. 17, 2021 and officially received his world record status a year later on Dec. “The hardest part was finding somebody on the other side of the world willing to participate. “I was able to do a prototype on my own in the garage, but then to do something more … I had some students do it as a senior design project and it was a perfect project for them,” Burke said. He completed the project with assistance from some of his students and colleague Patrick Jeanty, who piloted the drone from the French island of Réunion located in the Indian Ocean. Burke and his team remotely flew the drone 18,411 kilometers, or 11,440 miles, nearly halfway around the world. UCI professor of electrical engineering and computer science Peter Burke broke the Guinness World Record for “the farthest distance to control a commercially available unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)” using cloud computing and the internet.
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