UST Weekly Newsletter - October 19th, 2023
Unmanned Systems Technology
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Here’s a quick roundup of some of this week’s top news and developments in the unmanned industry…
Nathanel Apter , the founder of UASolutions addresses the question “How can we fly a drone in a city legally under the new EU Drone Regulation?” Detailing the options and drone regulations applicable to operators wishing to flying smaller drones in cities, either at a safe distance, or overflight of people.
The article discusses Open Category, PDRA-S01 or STS-01, SORA with mitigations M1 and/or M2, and SORA in SAIL III or IV.
With extensive experience in SORA applications for operations over people and beyond visual line of sight, UASolutions is committed to supporting companies throughout the entire authorization process.
congatec to develop embedded computing products based on PICMG’s newly-ratified COM-HPC 1.2 specification, which introduces the COM-HPC Mini form factor.
This new specification provides high-performance capabilities in a small form factor, measuring only 95 mm x 70 mm. Even devices with limited space, such as sUAS and drones, can now benefit from the superior bandwidth and interface capabilities of COM-HPC, including PCIe Gen 5 and Thunderbolt.
Christian Eder , Chairman of PICMG’s COM-HPC Working Group and Director of Market Intelligence at congatec, commented: “COM-HPC offers the highest performance, bandwidth, interfaces, and scalability compared to other computer-on-module standards and with COM-HPC Mini, engineers can now leverage all this on a real small form factor for space constrained embedded and edge computing designs.”
Textron Systems ' Aerosonde Hybrid Quad (HQ) UAS completed a series of successful demonstrations as part of the UNITAS naval exercises.
The demonstrations consisted of five flights for 24 hours of total flight time from the USNS Burlington.
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The ability to collect and transmit high-quality imagery and data to naval command centers, in near real-time, significantly enhances decision-making processes, enabling naval commanders to deploy their assets strategically.
Multiple sensor options, such as electro-optical (EO), infrared (IR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and signals intelligence (SIGINT), enable the UAS to efficiently detect and track surface vessels, submarines, and other potential threats.
CRP Technology S.r.l. S.r.l. has launched a new material of the TOP-LINE range for industrial 3D printing service, the rubber-like Windform TPU.
Designed for the Additive Manufacturing (AM) market, Windform TPU is a thermoplastic polyurethane, white coloured, extremely elastic, flexible, resistant to impact, and soft thanks to its elongation at break > 400%.
There are many industrial sectors that can benefit from the use of Windform TPU including robotics and unmanned systems.
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. has been contracted by the US Air Force to develop a detect-and-avoid system for the Air Force’s new long-endurance drone.
The project is sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and is an SBIR Phase II project. The program seeks to bring dual-use technologies, which can help both civilian and military users, into the military with a focus on high-impact, near-term implementations.
FlightHorizon is Vigilant Aerospace’s detect-and-avoid and airspace management software, fusing data from aircraft transponders, radar, drone autopilots and live FAA data to create a single picture of the airspace around a drone.
“Provision of automatic collision avoidance for a new generation of uncrewed aircraft systems is a critical technical gap that we are striving to fill. With both onboard and ground-based versions of our software, we can utilize new or existing infrastructure and UTM networks and provide multi-layered safety. We believe we have the industry’s most comprehensive approach to UAS safety and are grateful that the Air Force has engaged our expertise and technology for their next-generation aircraft.” - Kraettli Lawrence Epperson , CEO of Vigilant Aerospace.
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