Unmanned Systems Technology 038 June/July 2021
- Intro - The Mayflower Autonomous Ship’s inaugural voyage across the Atlantic soon will be vital to proving that unmanned systems technology is viable and safe for long journeys
- Platform one: Mission-critical info - Solid-oxide fuel cell designed to run on butane or natural gas unveiled, RTI updates software to support low-latency systems, Volz unveils its most powerful servo, and more
- In conversation: Richard Bernard -VITEC’s senior product manager explains the advantages of implementing video codecs in hardware rather than software
- Dossier: Skyeton Raybird-3 - If you want to develop a UAV to cover thousands of kilometres of ocean and/or terrain per mission, here are some of the off-trend engineering decisions you need to make
- Focus: Data storage - We explain the range of different technologies needed to provide unmanned vehicles with more secure, reliable and higher-capacity data storage systems
- Digest: Sea-Kit X-Class - This USV allows deep-sea ROVs and AUVs to be deployed and controlled from thousands of miles away and for months at a time. Here’s how it’s able to do that
- Insight: USVs - As demand for USVs speeds up among critical marine industries, we report on some new and updated vessels being launched
- Dossier: Spectronik PEM fuel cells - This Singaporean company tells us why it has added closed-cathode cells to its range, how it developed them and how they improve on the performance of open-cathode designs
- In operation:Blue White Robotics Platform - Every farm may be different, but many of them are grappling with labour shortages, two factors that this ‘pick-and-mix’ suite of automation technologies has been designed to address
- Focus: Antennas - With unmanned vehicles increasingly being expected to operate across wider regions and more radio bands, we report on the corresponding advances in antenna design and technology
- Report: AUVSI Xponential Virtual 2021 - This year’s show was an online event in May, with a live event set for August – here are some highlights from the online version
- PS: Secure UAV network comms - Researchers have devised a way for networked UAVs to resist a range of attacks by malicious craft. This is how it works