Honeywell Navigation, Communication and Control

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HoneywellNavigation, Communication and Control

• SAE GC Committee Meeting
• Oct 19, 2005
• sanjay.parthasarathy_at_honeywell.com

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Fall Update

• iPINS personal navigator system
• DARPA seedling program
• Demonstration of inertial navigation sensors,
  dead reckoning, time-of-arrival and gait analysis
  algorithms
• Autonomous systems
• Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)
• Flights by soldiers at Ft. Benning and Schofield
• At least 8.5km range, autonomous operations
• Organic Air Vehicle Phase 2 of program
  commenced
• Focus on collision avoidance algorithms and
  demonstrations
• Sensors detect 6mm wire at 50m
• Demonstration of in-flight collision avoidance
• Design of vehicle progressing
• Heterogeneous Urban RSTA Technologies (HURT)
• Northrop Grumman-led DARPA program
• Honeywell research on Planning and Control

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HURT Provides On-Demand Collaborative RSTA for
Obscured Targets

• Urban RSTA requires horizontal viewpoints and
  rapid reaction to cues and perceived threats

Overhead surveillance
Multilateral geolocation
FUTURE UAV
LOS comms relay chain
Side-looking RSTA
Persistent mobile sensors
Agile urban navigation to see in portals
Rapid fly-by shooting of concealed targets
Cueing sensors
Ground and subterranean recce
The HURT control layer can make existing vehicles
behave like a distributed robotic sensor
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Demonstration results

• Sept 22, 2005 at Victorville, CA
• 4 small UAVs
• 2 pointers
• 1 raven
• 1 Yamaha R-Max
• Honeywell provided vehicle tracking and
  surveillance algorithms, integrated into the HURT
  ground control station
• The HURT system autonomously prioritized each
  request and directed the most suitable UAV to the
  location for a closer look while maintaining
  continuous broad-area surveillance by the other
  UAVs.