ACTRON SURVEILLANCE AIRBOT

The Actron Hawk^TMMultiple Purpose Flying Platform

Airborne Platform Features

• Autonomous Remote Sensing using UAVs.
• Decentralised Navigation and Control of Autonomous Flight Vehicles.
• Design and Development of Rapid Prototype UAVs.
• Simultaneous Localisation and Map Building for Autonomous Flight Vehicles.
• Vertical Takeoff and Landing UAVs from the Bed of a Truck or the Deck of a Ship.
• Wind-tunnel and flight based experimental research in aerodynamics and flight performance.
• Modelling of engine/propeller performance and aircraft stability characteristics.
• High fidelity aircraft model development for simulation based control system validation.
• Trajectory optimisation and autonomous guidance for unmanned aircraft.
• Sensor fusion strategies for state estimation using multiple redundant sensors, including GPS.
• Using GPS for aircraft attitude determination.
• System Identification methods and neural networks for fault detection and reconfiguration.
• Robustness analysis of control laws in the presence of uncertain dynamics and wind gusts.
• Robust nonlinear high-performance manoeuvre tracking for autonomous aircraft.
• Autonomous safe recovery and landing of a UAV.
• Terrain Following for autonomous flight vehicles.
• Integration of available technologies into operational UAV systems.
• Real-time fight control software synthesis for UAVs.
• Design and fabrication of airframe components using advanced composite materials.