Unmanned Systems Technology Weekly eBrief - October 20th, 2022

Heavy Lift Backpack Drone Showcased

Real-time Robotics has introduced a new heavy lift backpackable multirotor UAV, the HERA drone. Small enough to fit in a backpack, the HERA drone is powerful enough to lift 15kg payloads. A versatile ‘Swiss Army knife drone’ that can fold down to backpackable dimensions (55cm x 34cm x 22cm), the HERA can be deployed in under a minute and is capable of carrying four gimballed payloads mounted simultaneously, each with 360-degree field-of-view (FOV). Learn more >

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USMC Selects Kaman to Develop Logistics UAS Prototype

Kaman Air Vehicles, a division of Kaman Corporation, has been selected to build a logistics Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) prototype for the US Marine Corps. The company will build a funded military version of its KARGO UAV, a purpose-built autonomous medium-lift logistics vehicle that can carry up to 800 pounds of payload and is designed to operate in austere environments. Read more >

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New LiDAR Solution Delivers Survey-Grade Data from UAV Platforms

Teledyne Geospatial has released a new survey-grade UAV LiDAR and camera system. The Optech CLS-A enables high quality surveying and inspection applications where the tight integration of a powerful narrow beam divergence laser, high accuracy IMU, calibrated camera and powerful post-processing software provide for efficient wide area collection at the allowable regulation limits for UAV operation. Find out more >

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Autonomous Amphibious Response Vehicles Chosen for Rapid Prototyping

The Defense Innovation Unit has chosen Greensea Systems and Nauticus Robotics to each deliver a prototype Autonomous Amphibious Response Vehicle (A2RV) capable of detecting, identifying, localizing, inspecting, and neutralizing explosive hazards from very shallow water through the surf zone to the beach exit. Greensea Systems, in partnership with Bayonet Ocean Vehicles, and Nauticus Robotics will deliver the prototype vehicles for user evaluation by Fall 2023. Read more >

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Large-Scale Tactical Mesh Radio Network Demonstrated

Silvus Technologies has successfully demonstrated a network made up of 559 of the company’s StreamCaster MANET radios, where every node generated position location information (PLI) data. Employing Silvus’ proprietary MN-MIMO waveform featuring enhanced routing algorithms, the mesh network successfully connected hundreds of nodes with high data rate throughput and bandwidth-efficient capacity. See more >

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