The use of unmanned aircraft for civil applications is expected to increase over the next decade, particularly in so-called “dull, dirty and dangerous” missions. Unmanned aircraft will undoubtedly require some form of autonomy in order to ensure safe operations for all airspace users. However, in order to be used for civil applications, unmanned aircraft must gain regulatory approval in a proce...

This report describes an unmanned systems architecture and platform for performing cooperative autonomy research. The primary research aim of this system is to explore distributed, cooperative, autonomy algorithms for controlling multiple unmanned systems vehicles. The system consists of multiple small, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) that can operate autono...

–The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems like unmanned autonomous helicopters are used in various missions of flight navigation and used to collect the environmental information of the surroundings. To realize the full functionalities of the UAV, the software part becomes a challenging problem. In this paper embedded real-time software architecture for unmanned autonomous helicopter is propos...

quad rotor is a renowned underactuated unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) with widespread military and civilian applications. despite its simple structure, the vehicle suffers from inherent instability. therefore, control designers always face formidable challenge in stabilization and control goal. in this paper fuzzy membership functions of the quad rotor’s fuzzy controllers are optimized using nat...

This paper summarizes the most important advances of the used crane control technology in perspective of unmanned operation of container cranes. Unmanned operation with remote control support today is available for almost all types of new/existing rail mounted container cranes. Storage capacity is the limitation for most terminals today; unmanned operation offers optimum stacking density and pe...

The integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system requires new methods of ensuring collision avoidance. For unmanned aircraft a capability to ‘detect-and-avoid’ is required to replace the traditional ‘see-andavoid’ performed by pilots. The initial results from testing a Mobile Aircraft Tracking System (MATS) show that this ground-based radar system can track a ScanEagle unm...

Non-wetting surfaces are imperative to the survival of terrestrial and semi-aquatic insects as they afford resistance to wetting by rain and other liquid surfaces that insects may encounter. Thus, there is an evolutionary pay-off for these insects to adopt hydrophobic technologies, especially on contacting surfaces such as legs and wings. The cranefly is a weak flier, with many species typicall...

Many military concepts for future employment of unmanned systems will require coordinated action by teams of unmanned vehicles and often manned/unmanned teams. The effectiveness of these heterogeneous military teams will rely on their ability to perform in dynamic, stressful situations as well as pure human teams do today. Current solutions for teaming of manned and unmanned assets rely on cont...

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs, performed a set of experiments in cooperation with the U.S. Navy involving collaborative, unmanned surface and air vehicle mission execution. Our multi-domain, collaborative research focused on increasing the ability of...