Unmanned Systems Technology 046 October/November 2022
- Intro - Reducing the risks to crews in outer space safety is providing uncrewed systems with a key new application
- Platform one: Mission-critical info - ABD Solutions unveils a modular system for converting heavy vehicles to driverless operation, researchers announce a method of building 3D structures while in flight, and much more
- In conversaion: Alan Wilson - Professor of Locomotor Biomechanics at the Royal Veterinary College, London, talks about animal biomechanics and robotics
- Dossier: IAC AV-21 - How the Indy Autonomous Challenge and its partners developed and refined this ground-breaking racecar
- Focus: Video systems - Video systems developers are responding to rising demands for low latency and AI with the advances detailed here
- Digest: Seaber YUCO - Why risk thousands on a large and heavy AUV when a smaller and less costly vehicle will do the job? Try this one for size
- Insight: Space vehicles - Colonising the Solar System can’t begin until we have more data from uncrewed missions, some key ones of which we detail here
- Show report: CUAV Expo Americas 2022 - We’re back after three years owing to the Covid pandemic, and the expo did not disappoint us. Here are some of the highlights
- Show report: DroneX 2022 - This major UAV-centred show was full of interest, so here are some details of the key announcements
- Dossier: Honeywell 600U, 600U-HV and 1200U fuel cells - A design and operation update on these PEM fuel cells since Honeywell acquired their developer, Protonex Technology
- In operation: Vantis BVLOS network - We look at the hurdles that had to be overcome to build this C2 network for managing uncrewed systems in mixed airspace
- Focus: GNSS - GNSS technology faces growing sources of interference, so product developers are making fresh efforts to deal with them
- Digest: Monodrone IM3000 Mk2 - Customer requests for a USV designed for missions in shallow water prompted the development of this ‘gap-filler’ vessel
- PS: Nanorobots - There is a wide range of potential uses for these tiny machines