Honeywell Navigation, Communication and Control SAE G&C Committee Meeting Oct 19, 2005
2HONEYWELL - Proprietary SP-SAE-G&C-Oct 2005 Fall Update iPINS – personal navigator system - DARPA seedling program - Demonstration of inertial navigation sensors, dead reckoning, time-of-arrival and gait analysis algorithms Autonomous systems - Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Flights by soldiers at Ft. Benning and Schofield At least 8.5km range, autonomous operations - Organic Air Vehicle – Phase 2 of program commenced Focus on collision avoidance algorithms and demonstrations Sensors detect 6mm wire at 50+m Demonstration of in-flight collision avoidance Design of vehicle progressing - Heterogeneous Urban RSTA Technologies (HURT) Northrop Grumman-led DARPA program Honeywell research on Planning and Control
3HONEYWELL - Proprietary SP-SAE-G&C-Oct 2005 HURT Provides On-Demand Collaborative RSTA for Obscured Targets Urban RSTA requires horizontal viewpoints and rapid reaction to cues and perceived threats The HURT control layer can make existing vehicles behave like a distributed robotic sensor Rapid “fly-by shooting” of concealed targets Persistent mobile sensors Overhead surveillance Agile urban navigation to see in portals Ground and subterranean recce Cueing sensors FUTURE UAV Side-looking RSTA Multilateral geolocation LOS comms relay chain
4HONEYWELL - Proprietary SP-SAE-G&C-Oct 2005 Demonstration results Sept 22, 2005 at Victorville, CA 4 small UAVs - 2 pointers - 1 raven - 1 Yamaha R-Max Honeywell – provided vehicle tracking and surveillance algorithms, integrated into the HURT ground control station The HURT system autonomously prioritized each request and directed the most suitable UAV to the location for a closer look while maintaining continuous broad-area surveillance by the other UAVs.