UAV & MAV---are we alone?

last SG · 2005-07-14T17:01:44+00:00

Can someone compile all the UAV manufactured and projects by Singapore? This is because there seems to be too many featured here, which makes it very confusi...

lionnoisy SG

Conceptual image: Robotic surgery is performed to a injured soldier in front line.
fr http://www.sri.com/news/imagebank/#TP Watch the video.

Trauma Pod
MENLO PARK , Calif. March 28, 2005. Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following injury. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) has taken a significant step toward that goal by awarding an SRI International-led, multi-organization team a $12 million, two-year contract to develop such a revolutionary system.

fr http://www.sri.com/news/
DARPA has more than 10 projects joint venture with Sg.

2.Team Members
* SRI International, developer of pioneering telesurgery systems
* General Dynamics Robotic Systems, a leader in unmanned ground vehicle systems and developer of the automated pharmacy system
* Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leader in weapons and material handling robotics
* University of Texas, a research leader in software control systems for material disposal and space manipulators
* University of Washington, a research leader in surgical robotics
* University of Maryland, a research leader in Operating Room of the Future
* Robotic Surgical Tech, Inc., developers of the first robotic nurse systems for the operating room

The team held a kick-off meeting at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in Long Beach, California on January 26-29, 2005.
fr http://www.sri.com/news/releases/03-28-05.html

The first phase of the program is an effort to develop robotic technology to perform a totally unmanned surgical procedure within a fixed facility. When fully developed, the Trauma Pod will not require human medical personnel on-site to conduct the surgery, and will be small enough to be carried by a medical ground or air vehicle. A human surgeon will conduct all the required surgical procedures from a remote location using a system of surgical manipulators. The system's actions are then communicated wirelessly to the surgery site. Automated robotic systems will provide necessary support to the surgeon to conduct all phases of the operation.

3.Wait 10 years more

SRI researchers caution that the project remains at least a decade away from appearing on any battlefields. Surgeons will need to manipulate the robot in real time, using technology that prevents any delays between their commands and the robot's actions. The "trauma pod" has to keep connected wirelessly without giving away its position to the enemy, and it has to be nimble and hardy enough to perform under fire.

fr http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=618826

lionnoisy SG

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/mae/Research/Programmes/IMR/
NTU has many activities.

Underwater Robotic Vehicles (URV),NTU

2.Stealth Underwater movement--Biomimic Underwater Robots

Modern vessels traveling on or under the water surface use propellers for propulsion and rudders for controlling the direction of travel. The propulsion force is generated due to the pressure difference between the two sides of the rotating propeller. Such kind of propulsion system will generate significant amount of noise, thus makes the vessel lose the stealth and unfriendly to marine ecology and environment. Quite contrarily, marine mammals and microorganisms usually propel in the water through continuous change of the body. Such propulsive principle is developed by creatures naturally and extremely energy efficient. Here we will study the mechanics and control of a class of novel propeller-less biologically inspired underwater autonomous systems both theoretically and experimentally. We have developed prototypes of unmanned underwater autonomous systems based on our findings. Potential applications of our research will benefit marine and coastal engineering, and underwater leisure industry. Currently we are developing three different systems....

Interesting,read the above link.The very stealth sub and ship are coming!?

Amoebot - This is a Metamorphic Underwater Vehicle (MUV) whose locomotion is inspired by the self-propulsion of the microorganism. The microorganism can propel itself in very low Reynolds number flow through the shape change of its body. Similarly, through the change of the body shape, the MUV can swim silently and has the capability to pass regions with obstacles under the water.

RoboGlider - This is an under-actuated underwater deployment robotic platform whose locomotion is inspired by the phenomena of falling leaf or paper. A leaf or paper exhibits complex dynamical behaviors because of the lift and drag in solid-fluid interaction. As the shape parameters of the falling object can be modified, the trajectory of the object in the fluid can be controlled. The RoboGlider thus travels underwater through the change of its critical dimensions, e.g., its length, under the influence of gravity.

Robo-eel - This is hyperredundant underwater robot, or multi-DOF snake like underwater robot inspired by the swimming of eels. The robots use undulatory movement to swim in the water. The objective is to study the locomotion pattern of the robotic eels. The robots are built using a set of water-proof RC servo motor gears, including water-proof RC servo, rechargeable battery boxes, RC transceiver boxes, wiring, etc designed by Prof. Francis Nickols.

lionnoisy SG

Unmanned Groung Vrehicle
19 May 2005 STimes
NTU intelligent unmanned vehicle is faster and smarter

NTU researchers have developed an intelligent unmanned vehicle which is faster and smarter than current commercial technologies. The unmanned vehicle can move up to four times faster and still find the shortest path between two locations intelligently. This is a project at the Intelligent Systems Centre, jointly set up by NTU and ST Engineering, which was officially opened yesterday. This was the second tie-up between NTU and ST Engineering, after the setup of Laboratory of Advanced and Intelligent Mechatronics in 2000.

fr http://www.ntu.edu.sg/CorpComms/NTU+in+the+News/Apr+-+Jun+05/

lionnoisy SG

The military application of Biomimetic robots reflects from the backgrounds of two authors.One from DAPRA and other from Offive of Naval Research.

Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots
Edited by Joseph Ayers, Joel L. Davis and Alan Rudolph

The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots requires a thorough understanding of the biological systems on which they are based, at both the biomechanical and physiological levels.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the field. The areas covered include myomorphic actuators, which mimic muscle action; neuromorphic sensors, which, like animal sensors, represent sensory modalities such as light, pressure, and motion in a labeled-line code; biomimetic controllers, based on the relatively simple control systems of invertebrate animals; and the autonomous behaviors that are based on an animals selection of behaviors from a species-specific behavioral "library." The ultimate goal is to develop a truly autonomous robot, one able to navigate and interact with its environment solely on the basis of sensory feedback without prompting from a human operator.

Joseph Ayers is Director of the Marine Science Center and Associate Professor of Biology at Northeastern University.

Joel L. Davis is Program Officer, Cognitive, Neural, and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division, Office of Naval Research.

Alan Rudolph is Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

fr http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=C1F6ACBD-2D8E-4BF6-B642-FCCBB139068A&ttype=2&tid=8812

2.It is nice we are doing the same thing!!

http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/

lionnoisy SG

fr http://jczs.sina.com.cn/2005-07-12/1206305194.html

June 30, 2005 NAVAIR
UAV demo flies despite rain
Photo by Jim Jenkins

by Jim Jenkins
NAWCAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS
From as far as Japan, Korea, Australia and Canada, nearly 5,000 people swarmed onto Webster Field Monday to attend the third Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Demonstration.

fr http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/tester/10_26/local_news/35660-1.html

lionnoisy SG

Proxy Aviation Systems Unveils SkyWatcher at AUVSIs UAV Demo and Unmanned Systems Show in Baltimore
Fully-autonomous unmanned aircraft system designed for ISR missions

Germantown, Md. June 27, 2005 Proxy Aviation Systems, Inc., a company dedicated to developing fully autonomous, optionally piloted unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unveiled SkyWatcher, a long endurance, low and medium altitude, multi-payload unmanned aircraft system today at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Internationals (AUVSI) (www.auvsi.org) demonstration of unmanned aerial vehicles at the Webster Field Annex of the Naval Air Station at Patuxent River, Maryland. The company will also be exhibiting at booth #537 at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems Show at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland June 28-30.

Proxy Aviations SkyWatcher is a fully-autonomous, optionally-piloted UAS designed for long endurance, low and medium altitude, multi-payload intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. With advanced capabilities such as single point management of up to 12 air vehicles, network centric cooperative flight in constellation formation and end-user tasking to meet required mission applications, SkyWatcher executes critical missions using fewer resources and personnel than established systems. The systems high level of reliability, persistence and survivability enable the system to execute high-end tactical and low-end strategic missions.

The SkyWatcher system consists of four main components: highly autonomous air vehicles; a primary mission-management ground control station; mobile ground control user terminals; and a variety of quick change payloads. This enables the operators to quickly task the system to attain vital, real-time information and immediately react to any situation. The system is designed to execute a wide range of applications such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), battle damage assessment (BDA), urban warfare, communications data relay and other missions.

........ The companys mission is to fill a gap in unmanned aviation capability by providing a system that successfully executes both low-end strategic and high-end tactical surveillance missions, requiring fewer personnel and resources than established systems.

All Proxy Aviation demonstrations are in accordance with U.S. export control laws.
About Proxy Aviation Systems
..............s a Delaware corporation, Proxy Aviation is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. For more information, visit

fr www.proxyaviation.com.

Will Sg MAV heading to this way?

http://www.proxyaviation.com/product.htm

lionnoisy SG

LALEE OF Sg

The project acronym is LALEE, which stands for low-altitude long-enduring endurance, but the low is a relative term, meaning that this platforms projected cruising altitude of 60,000 feet is lower than that of satellite surveillance systems. Endurance is self-explanatory, meaning a long dwell time such as is already demonstrated by the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. Long-enduring is a reference to the DSOs aim that this platform should be in service for 30 years.......

In the early stages of this project, the DSO(of Sg)http://www.dso.org.sg/home/collaborations/collaborations_overseas.aspx engaged maverick U.S. designer Burt Rutan as a consultant. Rutans company, Scaled Composites, has developed its own high-altitude, twin-boom, twin-engine design, the Proteus. It is not known whether Rutan continues to advise the DSO on the LALEE, which is somewhat largerapproximately the wingspan and fuselage length of a Boeing 737, and with an mtow of about 15 tons.

The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) community will be watching the LALEE development with interest, since it could potentially offer an alternative to the current U.S. dominance of the HALE market, at a time when interest in these platforms is taking off around the world. For instance, at the UAV conference earlier this week, EADS Internationals senior vice president Gen. Jean-Georges Brevot noted that France could be expected to introduce a HALE UAV between 2010 and 2015.

Singapore/EADS may do spy drone--by Chris Pocock
fr
http://www.ainonline.com/Publications/asian/asian_04/d3_dronep3.html

Who is Burt Rutan

fr http://www.scaled.com/
Wah!July 27, 2005: Sir Richard Branson (Founder, Virgin Group of Companies) and Rutan to form "The Spaceship Company

Rutan involved in B2

fr http://www.scaled.com/projects/index.html

So Sg may not be the best .But sure we are working with the best!

lionnoisy SG

LALEE

Professor Lui Pao Chuen 1997* Participated in the conceptualization the Piloted/pilotless air vehicle, LALEE (Low Altitude Long Enduring Endurance) to provide strategic surveillance flying continuously over Singapore.
1998 * Led a study team in the collaborative effort with Aerospatiale(Poster note:Now known as EADS) in the study of the system requirements for LALEE Appointed Chairman DSO Laboratories.

What is LALEE

38. A UAV designed for a continuous coverage mission will require the operating cost per flying hour to be very low, below US$1,000, to be affordable. A continuous coverage station will require the flying of about 10,000 hours per year. The capital cost of acquiring the platform and payload, say at US$50m will be overtaken by the operations and maintenance cost after five years of operations. The US Navy is studying the MRE (Multi-Role Endurance) UAV to perform this mission. We have just completed a 3 year long study of LALEE which is an integrated airborne surveillance and communications system designed to provide continuous temporal coverage over a very large area. Providing a task group operating in the littorals with continuous surveillance from the air with this class of UAV will be considerably cheaper than operating current generation of surveillance and communications platforms. The technology is there but whether Navies will to want to invest in this class of UAV will depend on their perceived need for a continuous coverage platform.

fr http://www.mindef.gov.sg/nps/technical/paper1.html
Text of Address by Prof Lui Pao Chuen, Chief Defence Scientist,Singapore.
Naval Platform Technology Seminar 10th May 2001

lionnoisy SG

Blue Horizon 2 UAV
fr http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/aircraft/uav/blue_horizon_2/Blue_Horizon_2.htm

Blue Horizon 2 is a joint venture with ST SMART

ZAOBAO 07.10.2001

2.Fantail

Fantails fr ST
Fr brochure of ST Dynamics some times back.

3.MAV-1 and Fantail fr Janes
Pl read translation fr JDW10.03.2004
http://jczs.sina.com.cn/2004-03-23/1024188965.html

lionnoisy SG

Re prevoius posting: Burt Rutan is confirmed involved in LALEE design.
http://www.dsta.gov.sg/Home/DisplayPage/ContentPage12.asp?id=847

lionnoisy SG

Skyblade2 as seen in Marina S.Portions in different colors
can be dismamtled and carried in big bag.

Spiral Landing with parachute.Read the open posting in this thread.

Note the control computer.Can be preprogrammed for mission.

lionnoisy SG

Gladitor for US Marines.
fr http://jczs.sina.com.cn/2005-08-16/0807313432.html
as seen in a recent demo.in US Army testing ground.04082005.
note the links in the bottom.
2.
Carnegie Mellon, United Defense To Provide TUGV's for US Marine Corps

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/robot-05g.html

lionnoisy SG

US Defense Department's "Unmanned Systems Roadmap 2005-2030''

Through
1.http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001748.html
get this
2.http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/uav_roadmap2005.pdf213 pages. Interesting to read
3.http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2005/08/081105.html#3

X-50 Dragonfly Canard Rotor/Wing (CRW)

Voice of an American

I just love these articles about the limitations of "UAV's" and autonomous weapon systems in general.

This is just more fear and lothing out of the folks that want to build big deck 100ton. Aircraft Carriers forthe F/35 (CV 77 the George H.W. Bush will be the last carrier to cone in under $10 Billion, maybe?) and sink another $150 Billion in to amphabious warfare ships to accomodate the VC-22 and to build aircraft with out any known mission the F/A-22.

Let's face it the F/A-22's have broken the $200 Million a copy barrier, the VC-22 who knows, but surely it has passed the $150 Million mark and the F-35, which is still in development has passed $100(M) per airplane, average.

While UAV's are still struggling to with add on's hit $10 Millionper airframe. It doesn't take a U.S. Congressman to figure out what the defense industry wants to make.

And I don't think it's by pure chance these same Aero Space Companies are now in ship building business.

Can anyone see a simularity here, Northrup Grumman after buying out Litton Industries who make LPD's for the U.S. Navy have bumped up the price from $835 Million to $1.8 Billion. Of course the new San Antiono class is needed to support the VC-22. Next the VC-22 will need a new LHA's, the LHA (R). The twelve barely used LHD's and LHA's in the fleet are unsuited for the VC-22 and AV-35's, surprise!

Chig ching, another $100 Billion bucks.

UAV's are the future, I just hope we can aford to get there.

ALLONS,
Byron Skinner
"Stewart's Platoon"

Posted by: Byron Skinner at August 16, 2005 02:19 PM

fr LINK 1 above.

lionnoisy SG

ST Aero double Skyblade UAV endurance

ST Aero has added an interchangeable payload and proportional module to give the UAV the flexibility to be deployed on a wider range of missions. The Skyblade II, designed with a sensor pod that can be slotted in multiple locations including under the fuselage, is also easier to handle and can be turned around quicker than its predecessor....
ST Aero has not made any changes to the 1.2m (3.9ft) -long wing and the range remains 8km (4.3nm) at a maximum speed of 70kt (130km/h). But the endurance has doubled from 1h to 2h under internal combustion and the option of an electric version with a 1h range is now being offered.

lionnoisy SG

This is Singapore's local produced MAV lah!STimes 2004-03-07.

2. ..see more Spore smart weapons!

3...u also cant miss this.

4.
Fantail aerodynamic modelling

lionnoisy SG

1... Mosquito 1.5Micro UAV by Israel Aircraft Industries

Mosquito 1.5 version will weigh 500g, will be capable of flying a 60 minute mission with enhanced 10-20g video camera (two gimbals provide roll control with electronic image stabilization), and carry improved avionics, enabling fully autonomous missions.Wingspan 34cm.JDW 23.02.2005.Micro--UAV.
1
see below for NUS version.
2.
Payload 1.2kg.Speed 72 km.

2.Ha!Ha! Singapore also get similiar one Wing
Aircraft from NUS's Aeronautical Engineering Group.see the secret projects u have never seen.

3.two new modes of flight one with Birds flight and the other one with Rolling Wings (Totally new concept). To find out more...

lionnoisy SG

Sparrow from Cradance System displayed in AA2004

the Sparrow from our own ST Dynamics.

Predator MAE UAV

Cradance Services Pte Ltd, whose principal activities are the provision of consultancy services, development of unmanned technology , is owned by ST, Temasek and DSTA

What is the spec for Sparrow N?

lionnoisy SG

watch our stuffs in AA 2004note the MAV.

What is it seen in AA 2004?

This is MAV made in Sg.

lionnoisy SG

two pages of UAV in Chinese

http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2004-04-06/09412237332s.shtml

Golden -Eye 100

lionnoisy SG

Mini UAV for SAF 1.6 kg .Hand launched.--STimes and TODAY 17.09.2005.
fr Information About IKC2 and Highlights of the Exhibition 2005

wat a cool UAV!!

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