By Invitation | Autonomous landings you can walk away from…
Adam Watson
The development in autonomous Uncrewed Air Vehicles (UAVs) has been tremendous, but what about finding a good place to land? If one wants to deliver medical aid to a casualty in rugged terrain, say in a wooded or urban area, then finding a suitable landing spot close enough to them can be a real challenge for trained pilots, let alone an uncrewed UAV.
In collaboration with Cranfield University, BAE Systems has developed and tested a solution that’s proven to work in a number of scenarios.
How does it work then?
Developing artificial intelligence to find a good landing zone is challenging and requires a number of things to be done. The easy part is working out a flight path to the casualty’s last known location, but then one needs to follow a search pattern to find them, scan the ground to find a flat enough ar
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