UAV / UCAV / LAR (robotit) Uutiset ja jutut

[peelo]

Ei vain tuosta. Tuo on Milrem Robotics. Patria osti Milrem LCM:n, joka on Millogin tapainen huoltopumppu.

Milrem LCM:stä omistaa 40% Mootor Grupp ja 60% Patria.
https://www.patria.fi/fi/media/tiedotteet/patrian-kumppani-virolaisen-milremin-omistajana-vaihtuu

Roboticsia omistaa Milremin tj. Kuldar Väärsi Sinrob-yhtiönsä kautta ja ilmeisesti osa Roboticsia kuuluu Mootorille.

OMG!!! Älä nyt tollasia kirjota. Kohta varmaan joku kertoo ettei Patria omistakaan puolta Norjasta

 

[Leaderwolf]

Luulin ettei rynkkyjä uusita, koska Patria on salaa rakentanut Suomelle jalkaväen korvaavan Terminaattori armeijan

 

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Maanantai vitutukseen robottirokkia

 

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Spoiler: Autonominen stuntti robotti

What’s the biggest problem right now with humanoid robots? They fall down. Disney seems to have solved that problem here by making robots that are meant to fall down and be caught by a net. Disney’s research arm (you may know them as Imagineers) is showing off a robot called Stuntronic which can perform controlled somersaults as it flies through the air. Check the video below, you really have to watch a few times to make sure this is a robot and not a person.

It’s really interesting to follow the evolution of this robot. It began with BRICK, a limbless rectangular bot that could shift its center of gravity to control orientation while moving through the air. From there, Stickman adapted those concepts into a stick-shaped robot that had two hinged portions which allowed for controlled somersaults as it flew through the air. Stuntronic feels like a big leap from that design.

As with Stickman, it can bend to control somersaults mid-air, but with the addition of articulated arms, Stuntronic can also add twists to the acrobatic bag of tricks. To our eye, this is very lifelike and manages to completely escape the uncanny valley. This is a ringing endorsement since one of the proposed purposes of this research is for live performances at Disney’s theme parks.

The Hall of Presidents was a marvel of its time, as robots presented famous speeches while decorated in the likeness of the leaders who originally delivered them. But to stand and deliver is a trick of decades past. We hope this is a trick of next year and not something we’ll have to wake decades into the future to see in person.

Oh, and for those wondering if Stuntronic stuck the landing? The controlled delivery into the net’s warm embrace is equally impressive. Hopefully, successful landings are commonplace because they’re launching these bots with some really wicked force! In addition to the gyroscopes and accelerometers you’d expect to find in a motion-aware machine, the design uses a trio of laser rangefinders that triangulate ground position to spot the optimal landing. We haven’t seen a publication for this bot yet but check the Stickman info for more on these sensors.

https://hackaday.com/2018/07/08/disneys-humanoid-stunt-robots-throw-multiple-backflips-no-sweat/

 

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Spoiler: Lyhyt katsaus biomekaanisten robottien historiaan

https://www.festo.com/group/en/cms/10156.htm

Spoiler: Kupoli on tulossa kotia jopa bottien mielestä

 

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CTSi and partner L3 Technologies completed flight-testing this month of a newly developed integrated communication and navigation system for use in highly contested and GPS-denied environments.

Designated the Enhanced Link Navigation System (ELNS), the prototype was built under a Navy $8.7M Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase III contract and flight tested at the St. Mary's County Regional Airport near Patuxent River, MD.

"Our team put ELNS in the air in less than 18 months. It worked the first time and every time during 15 flights which included 152 approaches," said Ian Gallimore, CTSi Chief Technology Officer.

He went on to say that ELNS provided area navigation to replace GPS at ranges in excess of 50 nautical miles all the way through landing.

Pilots from Airtec, who provided turn-key flight test support, said during test events, "These needles are... money," and "ELNS is as good as any instrument landing system I've flown, I'd fly it in the weather."

Martin King, Navy Project Manager, added "ELNS is scalable for unmanned aircraft in all Groups, from those needing high integrity like MQ-25, to small unmanned aircraft on tight weight budgets.

ELNS is the first system to bring GPS-denied navigation capability to small UAS. By combining significant investments in related fields to create a whole new capability like this, ELNS takes Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) for air vehicles in a compelling new direction."

ELNS utilizes L3 Technologies' waveforms that defeat adversary strategies to detect and disrupt allied signals, using waveforms that are essential in communications-denied, and GPS-denied environments.

"There is a strong fit between what ELNS brings and the threats that our forces are facing today," said Tom Sanders, CTSi Chief Executive Officer.

http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/CTS...y_contested_environments_for_US_Navy_999.html

 

[ctg]

Jos riittää paukkuja niin ota osaa Darpan https://www.subtchallenge.com/ foorumilla luolauskovaiset varsinkin ovat puolellasi.

 

[magitsu]

https://www.reuters.com/article/dut...er-drone-deal-next-week-sources-idUSL8N1U95BY

 

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Two leading manufacturers of remotely piloted aircraft systems are nearing the goal of certifying unmanned aerial systems (UAV) for operation in the same airspace with manned aircraft, thus removing a major barrier to entry for drones that restricted the operation of large drones over the populated areas in Europe, Canada, and the USA. Elbit Systems of Israel and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. are the two forerunners in this field, followed by IAI and Northrop Grumman.

Linkin alla iippojen Hermes 900 ja Brittien Skyguardian https://defense-update.com/20180712_certified_drones.html

 

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Spoiler

Pitäisikö suomen amis-lukio porukoille antaa mahdollisuus tälläiseen toimintaan? Itseä olisi ainakin kiinnostanut amiksessa ottaa osaa tälläiseen kilpailuun.

Spoiler

Hyvältä näyttää mutta tekeekö tämä sammutuksen paremmin kuin normipalomiehet? http://www.roboticfirefighters.com/

 

[kimmo.j]

Spoiler

Pitäisikö suomen amis-lukio porukoille antaa mahdollisuus tälläiseen toimintaan? Itseä olisi ainakin kiinnostanut amiksessa ottaa osaa tälläiseen kilpailuun.

Spoiler

Hyvältä näyttää mutta tekeekö tämä sammutuksen paremmin kuin normipalomiehet? http://www.roboticfirefighters.com/

Vastaus pitäisi, tämähän on oppilaiden ideointi/innovointi kyvyn "kiihottamista" ja parempaa innovointikykyä tarvitaan, että voidaan luoda tuotteita joita myydä ulkomaille.
Ammattikorkeakouluissa on ilmeisesti hiukan vastaavan tyyppisiä tapahtumia ollutkin.

Tuo sammutusrobotti ei välttämättä sammuta paremmin, mutta tietyissä tilanteissa tuo olisi kätevä, vielä kun sille saisi parin jolla olisi kaksi manipulaattoria jossa olisi leikkuu työkalu ja tarttumatyökalu. Toinen sammuttaisi ja toinen raivaisi.
Hitaampi tuollainen on kuin perinteinen ihmissammuttaja, mutta tietyissä tilanteissa voisi jättää ihmisen turvaan ja mennä ihmisen puolesta vaaralliselle alueelle.

 

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Hitaampi tuollainen on kuin perinteinen ihmissammuttaja, mutta tietyissä tilanteissa voisi jättää ihmisen turvaan ja mennä ihmisen puolesta vaaralliselle alueelle.

Kemiallisessa palossa tuo voi olla todella kätevä, mutta kuten sanoit se tarvitsee apurin joka osaa kääntää vaikka pakosta taikka käyttää työkaluja hyväkseen. En usko että on hirveän vaikea toteuttaa, mutta tuo voi vaatia kaksi operaattoria jos toinen ei osaa jostain syystä osaa olla autonominen.

 

[kimmo.j]

Kemiallisessa palossa tuo voi olla todella kätevä, mutta kuten sanoit se tarvitsee apurin joka osaa kääntää vaikka pakosta taikka käyttää työkaluja hyväkseen. En usko että on hirveän vaikea toteuttaa, mutta tuo voi vaatia kaksi operaattoria jos toinen ei osaa jostain syystä osaa olla autonominen.

Veikkaan, että vaati aina kaksi operaattoria, mutta vaikka vaikuttaa hyvältä, ongelmiakin on.
- Voimanlähde, akku on kallis ja painava, sekä rajoittaa toiminta-aikaa, vaikka tietyssä tilanteessa voima voitaisiin toimittaa tietysti johtoa pitkin.
- Polttomoottori, tekisi hyvää toiminta-ajalle, mutta ongelmaksi muodostuu toiminta ATEX-alueella, tai se että vaatii toimiakseen happea, eli ei saattaa hyvinkin hyytyä savun keskelle.
- Kesto, laitteen tulee kestää kuumuutta(esim.telat), kemiallisia aineita jotka ovat hyvin agressiivisia, myös pöly- ja vesitiiveeys on vaatimuslistalla, laitteen kuoren tulee pitää korkealla paineella suhkutettu vesi ulkona.
- Liikkuvuudelta vaaditaan paljon, kyky nousta portaita on ehdoton. Vetovoimaakin tarvitaan, esim. 3" letku painaa paineisena miehekkäästi kun sitä joutuu vetämään perässään.

Eli ei ihan helpoja vaatimuksia.

Mutta olet oikeassa, erilaisten palavien jätekasojen penkominen ja sammuttaminen ei ole erityisen hionoa, kun tietää millaisia myrkkyjä siitä kasasta nousee. Käyttöä kyllä olisi vaikka kuinka paljon, kunhan ominaisuudet ja hinta saataisiin kuntoon. Mielenkiintoinen projektihan tuo olisi.

 

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Syntyy ilkeitä ajatuksia kun tämän kääntää päälleen ja ajattelee käyttävänsä droneja kartoittamaan laaja-alaisia rakenneheikkouksia kallioleikkauksissa, silloissa ja vanhoissa rakennuksissa strategisilla paikoilla.

"It’s a real game changer," Michal Mazur, partner at consultancy PwC, said of drones. "They’re 100 times faster than manual measurement, more accurate than helicopters and, with AI devices on board, could soon be able to fix problems." In-sight drones cost around 20,000 euros each and BVLOS ones will cost significantly more, according to executives at tech companies that make the machines for utilities, and a fleet of dozens if not hundreds would be needed to monitor a network.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-technology-aids-preserving-great-wall-china/

 

[VanhaPate]

US Army to use drones to hunt and kill drones

Brian Hartigan

17/07/2018

The US Army will use Raytheon’s Coyote® unmanned aircraft system and the KRFS radar – which stands for Ku band radio frequency system – to counter the escalating threat of enemy unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies above the battlefield.

CAPTION: Coyote unmanned aerial vehicle in flight. Raytheon photo.

Coyote is small, expendable and tube-launched UAV that can be deployed from the ground, air or a ship.

Coyotes can be flown individually or netted together in swarms, and are adaptable for a variety of missions including surveillance, electronic warfare and strike.

Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems vice president Thomas Bussing said enemy unmanned aircraft were among the biggest threats facing ground troops today.

“Our small, expendable Coyote provides the Army with an affordable and highly effective solution for countering the growing UAS threat,” Dr Bussing said.

“Raytheon is finalising development of advanced Coyote variants that will fly faster and farther.

“Because of an urgent operational need, the Army is expected to use Coyote as a counter-UAS solution before the end of the year.”

Raytheon Mission Systems and Sensors vice president Dave Gulla said the KRFS radar in use today was a multi-mission radar providing rocket, artillery and mortar, sense and warn, and counter-UAS mission capabilities.

“Its accuracy enables significant UAS mission performance including precision fire control and UAS swarm scenarios at tactically significant distances,” Mr Gulla said.

“The warfighter needs a complete mission solution to successfully counter UAS threats.

“Our quickly transportable system that tracks low-swarming threats with KRFS and eliminates those threats with Coyote, is a game changer for the US Army.”

Raytheon has delivered 40 KRFS radars to date, with more than 32 deployed by the US Army.

http://www.contactairlandandsea.com/2018/07/17/us-army-to-use-drones-to-hunt-and-kill-drones/

 

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In early July, Israel Aerospace Industries demonstrated the Rotem UAS—a proof-of-concept quadcopter drone capable of providing both airborne surveillance and an explosive punch. The lightweight drone, which can be carried in a backpack and flown by one person, comes with a "combat head" that turns it into a guided weapon.

Rotem folds down into a package 38 inches long, 7 inches wide, and 5 inches high. According to a report from Israel Defense, the drone has a number of "automated modes." It has automatic take off and landing control, an emergency "return home" feature, and can navigate to a given set of coordinates or follow a pre-specified route without operator interaction. It can also be put into automated observation and attack modes once a target is designated, and the drone can "safe ditch" and disable its warhead if an attack is aborted.

A number of fixed-wing "loitering munitions" have been produced in the past, such as Aeronautics Defense Systems' Orbiter 1K—a suicide drone that drew unwanted attention when Aeronautics' live-fire sales demonstration to Azerbaijan turned into an attack on an Armenian military position. In the US, Textron developed Battlehawk—essentially a fixed-wing loitering hand grenade—in 2013. And the US Army started purchasing the tube-launched fixed-wing Switchblade from AeroVironment back in 2011.

But the problem with fixed-wing systems is that they require some method of launch and tend to be difficult to recall after launch. Rotem's advantage is that it can be called back and safely land for reuse if there's a need to stand down.

https://arstechnica.com/information...s-kamikaze-drone-bomb-that-can-be-called-off/

 

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Spoiler: korkean teknologian robottiauto brittien perinne rallissa

https://roborace.com/

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DARPA’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program recently completed Phase 2 flight tests, demonstrating advanced algorithms designed to turn small air and ground systems into team members that can autonomously perform tasks that are dangerous for humans – such as pre-mission reconnaissance in a hostile urban setting or searching damaged structures for survivors following an earthquake.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/fast-lightweight-autonomy

Spoiler: FP dronelentäjille kustomoitu AR takki

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton...osuit-lets-you-control-a-drone-with-your-body

 

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A massive, 22-ton armed drone to be flight-tested later this year will be the model for Russia’s sixth-generation fighter jet, according to state media.

Dubbed Okhotnik, or Hunter, the strike-and-reconnaissance drone — roughly the size of a U.S. Air Force F-15 — is designed to have a top speed of 372 mph, a maximum range of 2,175 miles, and a payload of up to two tons, TASS reported July 20. As for the next-gen jet:

“First of all, it should be unmanned and capable of performing any combat task in an autonomous regime,” a Russian industry source told TASS. “In this sense, Okhotnik will become the prototype of the sixth-generation fighter jet.”

The source added that weapons firing would remain a human decision.

https://www.defenseone.com/technolo...ure-russian-fighter-jets/149976/?oref=d-river

 

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I remember distinctly the cool December day in 2013 at my company’s headquarters in the Santa Cruz mountains when we met with researchers from NASA to plan tests for a novel propeller configuration for electric aircraft. Somehow, our Joby Aviation team, the NASA researchers, and colleagues from another small California business brainstormed our way into a much more ambitious program than any of us had expected when the meeting began.

Instead of building and testing a scale model, we decided to construct a full-scale wing—one large enough to lift a four-passenger aircraft. And it would have not two or four, but a dozen or more separate motors and propellers arrayed along the leading edge. We could have tested a smaller wing by mounting it on a pickup truck. A full-scale wing would require something a lot more elaborate. And the project would need to be completed in less than a year, on a budget small enough to make most companies turn tail. But we were committed.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace...tric-propulsion-and-a-whole-lot-of-propellers

 

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One of the things that we learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge is that it’s useful for robots to have legs to walk, but it’s even more useful for robots to be versatile and adaptable, with multimodal locomotion capabilities that they can deploy depending on the situation. At the DRC, we saw all kinds of different designs, but one of the more unique approaches came from the University of Bonn, in Germany, with their robot Momaro.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton...ntauro-a-new-disaster-response-robot-from-iit