Uncrewed Systems Technology 052 October/November 2023
- Intro - AI is is making its way into wireless systems, and cutting road deaths, but traditional technologies will still hold sway for a while
- Platform one: Mission-critical info - Simulator projects to improve sensor and data models, robot can take eight different forms to suit its environment, study shows how to make drivers take manual control, and much more
- In conversation: Davide Scaramuzza - This robotics and perception professor explains his work on developing vision-based navigation for UAVs
- Dossier: Keybotic Keyper - How having four legs allow this UGV to overcome the challenges of working in dirty and dangerous industrial environments
- Focus: Video encoding - Don’t turn to AI for compressing UAV video feeds just yet, there’s still plenty of life left in existing techniques, as we explain
- Digest: Dufour Aerospace Aero2 - Hybrid power and a tilt-wing layout help this UAV to carry heavy payloads over long distances. Here’s how it was developed
- In operation: Subsea Tech SeaCAT - This USV-ROV-UAV combination is aimed at marine clean-ups – we explain how the system was used in a major project
- Insight: Uncrewed space vehicles - Autonomy is making further inroads into space exploration, and is even spawning a separate industry supplying small satellites
- Show report: CUAV Expo 2023 - The sheer number and range of new uncrewed systems on display here has led to this, our most in-depth report on the expo
- Insight: SkyPower’s SP engines - How this engine developer uses commonality and modularity of components to allow integrators to choose the optimum UAV powertrain, or reconfigure it for different applications
- Focus: Cable harnesses - We explain the lengths harness suppliers go to in order to deliver the best designs and components for a given use case
- Report: Paris Air Show 2023 - Uncrewed and autonomous systems were just as much in evidence here as crewed aircraft, as we highlight here
- Digest: Nauticus Robotics Aquanaut - The development of this offshore survey AUV, which is part of a system that includes a small, optionally crewed topside vessel
- PS: Security of UAV data links - The various ways UAV data links can be subjected to cyber attacks, and how they can be countered