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Micro-UAV Challenges...Aero-dynamics & Aero-elasticity STC IR Signatures & Analysis STC . Land Div...
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Micro-UAV Challenges DST technical development and the
implications for HADR capability
Simon Ng Group Leader
Unmanned Aerial Systems
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• DST’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Science and Technology Capability (UAS STC)
• Complexities of HADR operations (from our perspective)
• Technology challenges posed by HADR
• Our research in this context
• An invitation to collaborate
• Summary
Structure
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The UAS science and technology capability (STC)
DST Group
Aerospace Division
Aircraft Performance &
Survivability
Unmanned Aerial
Systems STC
Aero-dynamics & Aero-elasticity
STC
IR Signatures & Analysis STC
Land Div
Weapons Combat Systems
Div
Cyber EW Div
collaborate
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Dr Jennifer Palmer and her team Urban operations Novel flight mechanics
Collaboration
Mr Geoff Brian and his team UAS signature, materials and energy Hybrid energy systems
Mr Kent Rosser and his team Multi-modal navigation and guidance Micro airframe control Sensor integration
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Smoke
Darkness
Structures
Chemicals Survivors
Debris
Traffic Altered
Landscape
Noise
Wind
Systemic Failure
Constriction
Contamination
Looters
Occlusions
Instabilities
Fire
Water
n-dimensional complexity à Contextual UNCERTAINTY
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Urban ISR for military or police
action
Chemical and biological agent
localisation
Emergency response
Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
Multifunctional materials and integrated systems • Integrated power and energy • Embedded and structural antennas
Teaming and cooperation • Human-machine teams • Distributed mapping and search by robotic teams
Specialised platforms • Agile, efficient micro platforms for indoor operation • Low signature rotary wing systems
Navigation, command, and control • Collision avoidance • Assured communications
• Active mapping and mission planning • Control in large-scale turbulence
Miniaturised sensors • Radar • Night vision (SWIR and LWIR)
• Single-photon avalanche diode arrays • Chemical, biological
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• Self-healing • Cooperative • Functionally
adaptable
Open Systems/OTS Platforms
Our S&T
SWaP
occlusions and obscurants
turbulence and weather
dynamic obstacles
denied environments
endurance and performance
unknown environments
Multi-modal sensing & navigation
Collaborative path finding, ISR, detect & avoid
Hybrid energy/power, multi-functional structures & novel
flight mechanics • Heterogeneous • Agile • Efficient
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Urban UAS Ops § Adaptive control and active
SLAM
§ Multi platforms, multi sensor
§ Multifunctional structures
§ Multi-system control architecture
§ Demonstration and validation
Novel multiplatform SLAM with chip based radar
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Closed-Loop Alternate Navigation Demonstration
§ Technologies for passive, closed-loop navigation of UAS § PA with DSTO / ARFL § Demonstration over 100km
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Bio-inspired flight § Bio-inspired aerofoil
for fixed-wing UAS § Flapping-wing UAS
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Power management research for UAS
§ Adaptive energy management
§ Hybrid power systems
§ Power and mission optimisatio
§ HiTL facility
§ Environmental-energy harvesting (solar, thermal, wind)
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Key Messages
n-dimensional complexity for HADR Whole of system view essential to meaningful HADR capability Technical solutions exist in isolation, but not integrated Open systems and open architectures for stronger collaboration
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