Unmanned Airspace covered Vigilant Aerospace Systems being awarded a year-long project to advance drone safety in collaboration with the Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and Technology this week. The effort targets onboard “detect-and-avoid” (DAA), which detects traffic and generates avoidance commands for separation. Flight testing will be carried out with engineering support from Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education.
The work continues development of FlightHorizon PILOT using multi-sensor inputs, including ADS-B In and small radars. It is intended to support beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations and emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) use cases. The article also describes planned engineering development and flight tests to validate performance in operational conditions.
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Vigilant Aerospace is the leading developer of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The company’s product, FlightHorizon, is based on two NASA patents and uses data from multiple sources to display a real-time picture of the air traffic around a UAS and to provide automatic avoidance maneuvers to prevent collisions. The software is designed to meet industry technical standards, to provide automatic safety and to allow UAS to safely fly beyond the sight of the pilot. The software has won multiple industry awards and the company has had contracts and users at NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and with a variety of drone development programs. Visit our website at www.VigilantAerospace.com