El US Army comienza a instalar sistemas GBSAA

La FAA requiere que todos los aviones en el espacio aéreo nacional - incluso aquellos sin un piloto a bordo - sean capaces de "sentir y evitar" obstáculos.

A tal efecto, el U.S. Army ha comenzado a instalar cinco sistemas terrestres de detección y evitación (GBSAA - Ground-Based Sense-And-Avoid) para impedir colisiones entre UAVs.

El primer sistema ha sido instalado en la base militar de Fort Hood, Texas, que cuenta con dos compañías al mando de UAVs General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle. A esta le seguirán sendas instalaciones en Fort Campbell (Kentucky), Fort Drum (New York), Fort Riley (Kansas) y Fort Stewart (Georgia). 

Pulse Aerospace Announces the wePilot3000

Pulse Aerospace, Inc., the Kansas based unmanned helicopter manufacturer and supplier of unmanned helicopter automatic flight control systems, announces today the release of the weControl wePilot3000 redundant, and full authority, digital flight control system for its North American customers.

The wePilot3000 is primarily aimed at the rapidly accelerating helicopter UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) industry, but also with the peripherals, controller architecture, and I/O to provide custom autopilot solutions for fixed wing UAVs. The wePilot3000, in contrast to its predecessor the wePilot1000, provides a redundant flight control system capability designed for helicopter UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) with a Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of 20lbs (9 Kg) to 1100lbs (500 Kg).

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