Uncrewed Systems Technology 062 June/July 2025
- Intro - Redundancy and safety demands are driving developments across the board in airborne, marine and ground-based uncrewed systems
- Platform one: Mission-critical info - Down-sized GNSS modules for high-accuracy navigation, UAVs conducting lightning strikes, off-roading autonomy using a self-supervised AI stack, giant robots working on construction sites and Lidar guiding Caterpillar’s autonomous haulage trucks, networked radar systems for monitoring low-altitude airspace, delivering safety with Amazon’s latest UAVs, and more
- In conversation: Toby Wilmington - The security-conscious guru spills some secrets on what manufacturers of uncrewed systems are doing to protect their assets
- Dossier: High Eye Airboxer - Rigorous design, development and testing produced this heavyweight UAV destined for military and maritime applications
- Focus: Video systems - AI and video encoding technologies are being combined to cope with the vast amounts of data captured by autonomous systems equipped with high-quality cameras
- Report: Ocean Business 2025 - A collection of the latest ideas for easy-to-use sensing, navigation and communications systems intended for autonomous surface, underwater and aerial vehicles
- In operation: Impossible Metals’ - Eureka underwater mining AUV Seeking new sources of raw minerals while protecting the environment, the Eureka AUV is going subsea mining
- Dossier: Groupe Danielson Engines - Revisiting a European turbodiesel manufacturer to see how they’re powering ahead in delivering UAV engines
- Insight: USVs - Improved robustness, reliability and resilience promotes increasing deployment of USVs in the marine environment
- Focus: ECUs - Renewed confidence in the ECU market means that developers are focusing on the trends that are driving design evolution
- Report: XPONENTIAL Europe 2025 - The latest in structural design, flight termination systems, laser rangefinders and radar obstacle avoidance systems for UAVs, Lidar and passive thermal management systems, and innovations in composite materials, and more
- In operation: Event 38 E455 - Full details of the preparation and realisation of a record-breaking pipeline surveying mission using a VTOL aircraft
- PS: UAS obsolescence and recycling - Examining how a healthy and sustainable UAS market must embrace strategies to address the growing problem of e-waste