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Teecht. Autonomous Helicopter Applied Scientific Discipline Wins To A Greater Extent Than Or Less Other Major Award


By Sierra Jones, Office of Naval Research

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Howard Hughes Award -- given past times the American Helicopter Society -- was presented hither May 17 to the Office of Naval Research as well as Aurora Flight Sciences for their articulation function on the Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System, or AACUS.

AACUS enables rotary-wing aircraft to wing completely autonomously fifty-fifty inward austere environments.

“The squad is honored to hold out recognized for our work,” said Knox Millsaps, caput of Office of Naval Research’s air warfare as well as weapons department. “But we’ll know if our function has been a existent success if it tin flame decease along fifty-fifty ane to a greater extent than warfighter prophylactic as well as out of harm’s agency during a resupply mission -- that’s our truthful mensurate of success.”

Sensors, Software Package

AACUS is a bundle of sensors as well as software that tin flame hold out integrated into rotary-wing aircraft to provide safe, reliable as well as rapid delivery of cargo to Marines inward the champaign using autonomous capabilities. These capabilities include flight, road planning, obstruction avoidance, landing pick -- fifty-fifty on unprepared fields -- as well as takeoffs.

AACUS employs an intuitive handheld tablet that allows a Marine inward the champaign to telephone phone upward needed supplies rapidly as well as easily.

That capability was on display inward Dec 2017 when AACUS successfully completed its finally demonstration -- featuring a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter -- at the Urban Training Center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 highlight of the demonstration included a Marine requesting an autonomous resupply afterward solely fifteen minutes of training.

Revolutionary Technology

“The AACUS technology provides a revolutionary agency to resupply our forces inward the field,” Millsaps said. “It could simplify the logistics prepare for supplying critical warfighting cargo to forward-deployed troops, as well as produce this inward a to a greater extent than economical fashion without placing human pilots at endangerment inward high-threat environments.”

AACUS has won as well as been nominated for other high-profile awards equally well. In add-on to receiving the Howard Hughes Award, the technology was a finalist for the recent National Aeronautic Association’s 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy.

And before this month, the programme received the Xcellence Award inward the category of “Detect as well as Avoid” from the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International.

AACUS was developed nether an Office of Naval Research innovative naval paradigm programme inward partnership amongst technology fellowship Aurora Flight Sciences. The programme is straightaway amongst the Marine Corps for farther experimentation as well as development.

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