UAV / UCAV / LAR (robotit) Uutiset ja jutut

[Marakatti]

Luin juuri eilen että parhaimmat riistakamerat toimii lähes vuoden yhdelä paristosatsilla. Tyhmää olisi olla käyttämättä tiedusteluun, enää ei sissipartin tarvitse kykkiä tienvarrella laskemassa minkälaista ajoneuvoa tulee.

Eikös noita saa myös akuilla ja sit niissä on pienet aurinkopaneelit mitkä lataa akkua kun tarvetta on. Silloin luulisi pidempikii aika onnistuvan ilman et siel tarvii käydä pattereita vaihtaan.

 

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HiPeRLab

High Performance Robotics Lab

hiperlab.berkeley.edu

https://survice.com/media/news/survice-supports-uls-jctd

 

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China has developed a four legged-robot design to support soldiers on the field | weapons defence industry military technology UK | analysis focus army defence military industry army

China has developed a four legged-robot which seems very similar to the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) developed by the U.S. DARPA

www.armyrecognition.com

 

[Olympiakasarmi]

Classified Air Force Drone Teaming Programs to Face Questions of Scale

Classified Air Force Drone Teaming Programs to Face Questions of Scale

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org

 

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mmmm, sdb:t ja brrrrrrr

Check Out The Gun Pods On The Rugged Mojave Unmanned Aircraft (Updated)

Precision-guided weapons are far more common armament options for drones like Mojave, but gun pods could be useful for armed overwatch missions.

www.thedrive.com

 

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Hintavaa on Counter-UAS. USSOCOM ostaa sitä kattohinnaltaaan liki miljardilla.

U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

Anduril Industries Inc., Irvine, California, was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (H92402-22-D-0001) with a maximum ceiling of $967,599,957 for a counter-unmanned systems, systems integration partner (SIP).

Contracts for January 20, 2022

Today's Defense Department contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are now live on Defense.gov.

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Anvil sUAS​

Precision kinetic intercept​

Anvil is the kinetic element of our end-to-end cUAS capability. It uses physical speed and onboard guidance to seek and destroy drone threats with positive identification and minimal collateral damage.

Anduril - Our Work

Anduril

www.anduril.com

Kiinnostava on myös heidän Ghost sUAS.

Anduril - Ghost 4 sUAS

Ghost 4 is an autonomous VTOL sUAS that operates on the Lattice AI platform. Ghost 4 is modular, man-portable, waterproof, and combines long endurance, high payload capacity, and a near-silent acoustic signature for a wide variety of mission capabilities.

www.anduril.com

 

[gekados]

Kiinnostava on myös heidän Ghost sUAS.

Royal Marines on testannut tuota jonkin aikaa. Lisää esim. täältä: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-a...021/july/17/210715-autonomous-advance-force-4

Andurilin on muuten perustanut ex-Facebook pomo ja Oculus VR:n perustaja. Firmaa on hypetetty tulevaisuuden puolustusalan tekijäksi, ei näköjään ihan turhaan.

 

[Teräsmies]

AWACS kehitteillä.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1484586593797259265

 

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DARPA anticipates running a series of field experiments in each phase of the RACER program. Each experiment will be 10 days long, and they’ll take place at six-month intervals, with the first kicking off in March of this year at the National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, Calif. The courses during Phase 1 experiments will likely be about 5 kilometers long, and DARPA describes them as “generally trail-less off-road natural terrain with vegetation, slope, discrete obstacles, and ground surface changes.” The vehicles should also be able to handle common environmental conditions, including “dusk/dawn, moderate dust, moderate rain/snow, light fog, natural shadows, lighting changes, and possibly exposure to night conditions.”

All that teams will get are a list of GPS coordinates reflecting course boundaries, route waypoints, and the end goal. Teams can use GPS to try to localize if they want to, but a GPS signal may not be available at all times. And when it is, it’ll be accurate to only +/- 10 meters. They can also use a topological map, but only at a resolution of 1:50,000. Otherwise, no external localization or preexisting information can be used, and maps from prior runs aren’t allowed either. To keep things achievable, DARPA will make sure that “multiple routes between waypoints will exist that can achieve RACER speed metrics when driven by a human driver.”

DARPA’s hope is that in Phase 1, teams will be able to demonstrate average autonomous speeds of 18 kilometers per hour with interventions required no more frequently than one every 2 km. Phase 2, using the APD, would be significantly more aggressive, with course lengths of 15 to 30 km or more, an average autonomous speed goal of 29 km/h, and interventions only once every 10 km. And if you’re wondering where these metrics come from, here’s what DARPA is looking for the autonomous vehicles to be able to do: “Maintain maneuver with manned combat vehicles at their OPTEMPO [that is, "operations tempo"] speeds, specifically the M1 Abrams main battle tank.”

DARPA’s RACER Program Sends High-Speed Autonomous Vehicles Off-Road

The goal of DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program is to develop and demo new autonomy tech that enables ground combat vehicles to maneuver in unstructured, off-road terrain at speeds that are no longer limited by the autonomy software or processing time.

spectrum.ieee.org

 

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Autonomista slaidausta

TRI Autonomous Drifting | TRI

TRI Autonomous Drifting

www.tri.global

Industrial Drone Technology | Exyn Technologies

Exyn develops autonomous aerial robot systems which are designed for real time, safe, and efficient 3D mapping in high-risk, GPS-denied environments.

www.exyn.com

Ghettovehkeiden aatelia. Bushmasterilla varustettu autonominen dronenmetsästäjä.

Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) | Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman provides an integrated, layered solution to countering unmanned aerial system (UAS) threats, from sensing to intercept.

www.northropgrumman.com

 

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Army Buys Artificial Intelligence-Infused Folding Quadcopters For Battlefield Use

The drones will be able to scout ahead for ambushes, targets of opportunity, and greatly enhance troops' situational awareness on the front lines.

www.thedrive.com

 

[rty19]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1491765287141748742

 

[Vääpeli]

Palopommeja pikkudronesta

Ukrainian Drone Drops Molotov Cocktails On Russian Proxy Trenches

An interesting video out of the Donbass region shows a Ukrainian drone dropping improvised incendiary munitions, with great accuracy, into Russian-proxy trenches and bunkers.

funker530.com

 

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Robots have all kinds of ways to change their shapes in the sense that you can use rigid components along with actuators to design a robot that can go from one shape to another. Such a system is inevitably highly complex, though, and typically requires a lot of mass plus a lot of energy to switch to and then maintain the shape that you’d like it to.

This week, we saw a couple of papers highlighting different shapeshifting robotic systems that rely on clever origami-inspired designs to rapidly change between different configurations, getting the maximum amount of usability out of the minimum amount of hardware.

Shapeshifting Robots Adapt with Cleverly Designed Bodies, Grippers

This week, we saw a couple of papers highlighting different shapeshifting robotic systems that rely on clever origami-inspired designs to rapidly change between different configurations, getting the maximum amount of usability out of the minimum amount of hardware.

spectrum.ieee.org

 

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https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/ri-seminar-matthew-johnson-roberson-cmu-2022-02-04/

Safe, Reliable, and Uninhabited: First Autonomous BLACK HAWK® Helicopter Flight

This historic BLACK HAWK flight marks the first time that a UH-60 has flown autonomously and builds on recent demonstrations at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2021.

www.lockheedmartin.com

Onboard Safety Guarantees for Racing Drones: High-Speed Geofencing With Control Barrier Functions

This letter details the theory and implementation behind practically ensuring safety of remotely piloted racing drones. We demonstrate robust and practical safety guarantees on a 7” racing drone at speeds exceeding 100 km/h, utilizing only online computations on a 10 g micro-controller. To...

ieeexplore.ieee.org

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1495314954114711557

 

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Tulee mieleen tuhmuuksia tätä katsellessa. Hyvä teknologia.

GRVC | Robotics, Vision and Control Research Laboratory

grvc.us.es

Tätä voisi käyttää palontorjunnassa

Apellix

Software controlled aerial robotic systems that utilize autonomous precision flight tethered and untethered drones to move workers from harm's way to paint/coat, clean/surface prep, and collect contact and visual data.

www.apellix.com

 

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SkyFlare is the next-generation smart illumination solution designed to light up large areas in all environmental conditions. Uses in a single or swarm formation, SkyFlare covers extensive areas. Powered by a 22.2V Li-Ion rechargeable battery pack, the UAV has an illumination power of 60,000 Lumens and an an endurance of 15 min with max illumination power.

Used for border protection, search and rescue and military applictions, SkyFlare illuminates a combat zone or blindspots in enemy by initiating a powerful and synchronised disturbing strobe mode that can also disable night vision system entirely.

Powered by a 22.2V Li-Ion rechargeable battery pack, the UAV has an illumination power of 60,000 Lumens and an an endurance of 15 min with max illumination power.

The small small UAV (folded: 200mm x 87mm x87mm / unfolded: 200mm x 260mm x 260mm) can support different swappable payload: visible, IR smoke, more. It is simply controlled with and Android tablet and has a range of +10km.

UMEX 2022: Skylock showcases SkyFlare illumination solution | UMEX 2022 News Abu Dhabi Official Online Show Daily Media Partner | Defence security exhibitions 2022 show daily news category

UMEX 2022: At UMEX 2022 in Abu Dhabi, Skylock (part of the Avnon HLS Group) presents the SkyFlare UAV, a fast solution for illuminating large areas in any environmental conditions.

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UJ-32 LASTIVKA is a loitering munition that is able to fly at any time of day or year in visual and adverse weather conditions in electronic countermeasures situations (taking into account the technique of operation). It is designed for immobile ground and waterborne target strikes.

The UJ-32 can change or abort the flight task during the mission and it can use in the «flock» mode with the strikes against one target by several loitering munitions or their redirection to different targets.

The loitering munition has a target hit accuracy of no more than +/- 2,5m, a low noise level during the launch and flight and does not leave visual and IR (infrared) wakes. It has a short assemble/disassemble time and it is able to switch the warhead with an onboard camera for supplemental reconnaissance.

UJ-32 LASTIVKA can reach 60 to 180 km/h. The flight duration is 20 minutes and the maximum autonomous flight distance is 40 km. It can RPG-7 ammunition usage as a warhead in a standard configuration but is adaptable for other types of ammunition engagement as a warhead.

UMEX 2022: Ukroboronprom promotes UJ-32 Lastivka loitering munition | UMEX 2022 News Abu Dhabi Official Online Show Daily Media Partner | Defence security exhibitions 2022 show daily news category

UMEX 2022: the Ukrainian firm SPE Ukrjet, promotes its UJ-32 LASTIVKA loitering munition.

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