OKC Velocity recently covered Vigilant Aerospace System’s OCAST-funded effort to advance onboard detect-and-avoid (DAA) as a key safety enabler for routine beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) uncrewed flight. The article reports that the year-long project is being done with flight test support from Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE), and it places the work in the context of the state’s broader autonomous aviation push, including airspace management capability buildout at the Oklahoma Air and Space Port. Velocity OKC summarizes the range of use cases that onboard DAA is expected to enable as the capability matures:
“As these capabilities mature, they unlock a wide range of public and commercial uses. Emergency response agencies increasingly rely on drones for search and rescue, flood monitoring, and wildfire response. Infrastructure operators use uncrewed aircraft to inspect power lines, pipelines, wind farms and construction sites, reducing risk to workers, and improving efficiency. Longer term, onboard DAA is expected to support early use cases for medical logistics and cargo delivery, as well as future advanced air mobility platforms.”
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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