UST Weekly eBrief - May 18th, 2023
Unmanned Systems Technology
The world’s largest ecosystem for unmanned systems #technology and #innovation.
Here’s our roundup of the top news announcements from the unmanned industry this week…
PDW ?is partnering with?Doodle Labs ?in order to integrate the industry-leading?Helix?Mesh Rider?Radio?into PDW’s flagship?C100 sUAS platform. The collaboration aims to provide enhanced functionality and improved capabilities for PDW’s C100 sUAS by enabling operations in electronic warfare-contested environments.
Red Cat Holdings ?is set to deliver 200 long-range, high-speed, First-Person View (FPV) drones to Ukrainian drone pilots. According to Red Cat, the drones to be shipped have the highest power-to-weight ratio in the drone industry, offering increased maneuverability even in GPS-denied and GPS-jammed battlefield conditions.
Public safety UAS consulting group?Skyfire Consulting ?has launched Skyfire Response — a complete turnkey solution for?Drone First Responder?(DFR) programs. Skyfire Response leverages Skyfire’s partnerships with hardware, software, drone-in-a-box and data analytics providers to allow agencies with existing UAS programs to upgrade to a Drone First Responder?program; and new agencies to start with ease.
领英推荐
Auterion ?is partnering with?Doodle Labs ?to integrate Doodle Labs’ industrial-grade wireless networking solutions within the Auterion open-source software platform to provide customers with a greater choice of communication and radio solutions. The integration means drone manufacturers can access an even wider choice of mesh networking and radio solutions to be able to offer BVLOS flight, and communicate over long distances, enabling a wide range of industrial and government applications.
New VTOL-in-a-Box Unveiled
Custom drone hardware and software developer?Easy Aerial Inc. ?has unveiled the Tern, a unique hybrid fixed-wing VTOL-in-a-Box solution. The Tern delivers VTOL capability, long flight times, and versatile payload options, and can precisely and reliably perform a wide range of missions before autonomously returning to its ground station for automatic recharging.
YellowScan ?has released a case study explaining how its?Mapper UAV LiDAR?was used by AIRD’ECO-Drone, on board a DPS6 drone, to carry out micro-topography to find artefacts that might be linked to an archaeological presence of pirates from the 17th and 18th centuries on land around a bay in the north-east of Madagascar.
Using the Mapper LiDAR, they were able to map the bay and generate digital terrain models of the hills, in order to find traces of habitat or walls.
Read all the latest news on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com >