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Elbit Systems announced that it has completed a series of successful tests of its Skylark I LE mini/man-pack UAS using the Dominator hardware to control and operate the UAS. During the tests, the Skylark was operated by a new cutting edge lightweight Forward Ground Control Station (FGCS) which utilizes the Dominator organic hardware solution.
ChandlerMay’s UAS Division recently delivered the 300th Ground Control Station (GCS) subsystem to AAI Corporation. The division builds major subsystems for the Army’s One System Ground Control Station (OSGCS), which flies several Unmanned Air Systems, including AAI’s Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System.
Harris Falcon III AN/PRC-117G
Harris Corporation and Cubic Corporation have conducted technology demonstrations that significantly enhance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) situational awareness by distributing UAS video and targeting data across wideband ground tactical communication networks.
As unmanned aircraft play an increasingly important role in defence strategies and tactics, the demands on the electronic control systems in these vehicles include extreme portability, ruggedness and safety. Every component in these systems carries with it the weight of mission success or failure – all the way down to the switches.
Plans by the U.S. military to consolidate its numbers of ground control stations for unmanned aircraft systems may be moving forward with the announcement Tuesday of a contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to integrate a Universal Ground Control Station.
At the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space convention outside Washington, Northrop and the Navy unveiled new details about the X-47B and their schedule to get it flying off a carrier. Rule number one: it’s not “remotely piloted.”
The U.S. Army is testing prototypes of a new high-tech synchronization engine at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., which can combine video feeds and sensor data from multiple Unmanned Aircraft Systems on a single Ground Control Station.
A recent breakthrough in precise aircraft control with implications for both manned and unmanned flight is highlighted in a brief video which can be viewed below. The full paper describing this Apprenticeship Learning control method and its integration into a comprehensive design and analysis suite is available here.
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