Changes in flight capabilities for in context dynamic needs.
December 8, 2020
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed a trajectory planner to speed the switch between hovering and forward flight in vertical takeoff and landing tail-sitter drones. The planner was engineered for the Army's Common Research Configuration (CRC) platform, a quadrotor biplane tail-sitter used in testing new design features and examining fundamental aerodynamics. The research team thinks the planner may eventually enable the CRC to intelligently switch between hover and forward flight while navigating across dense or urban areas. Said ARL’s Jean-Paul Reddinger, "This method ... is a step in the direction of integrating high-level autonomy with platform-specific dynamics."
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