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General Dynamics Robotic Systems’ (GDRS) Second Generation Tactical Autonomous Combat-Chassis (T2) addresses the military’s need for a rugged custom vehicle that can be equipped for manual, teleoperated, semi-autonomous or autonomous operation. GDRS developed...
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The General Dynamics Robotic Systems Safe Operations (SafeOps) team is integrating technologies that will enable high-reliability detection and avoidance of humans and moving vehicles in close proximity to Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). The key challenge...
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QinetiQ North America's Dan Deguire, Senior Program Manager for Future Robotics, details the safety features built into the MAARS robotic platform as well as additional features that set it apart from the SWORDS robots that came before it. The new...
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Electronic Design's Bill Wong had a chance to talk with QinetiQ North America's Dan Deguire about the MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System), a modular remote weapons platform & IED neutralization tool. MAARS uses the more powerful...
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The GoldenEye 80 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned ducted fan air vehicle features several acoustic dampening techniques that enable quiet hover and stare operations from altitude and an advanced flight control computer to rapidly transition...
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Aurora Flight Sciences' John Lambert and Tom Clancy talk to Engineering TV about the GoldenEye 80 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aircraft System. Originally developed under the DARPA's OAV-II Program, the GoldenEye 80 features an...
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The A160T Hummingbird unmanned aerial vehicle looks like a helicopter but is unlike any other helicopter on the market today. It features a unique optimum speed rotor technology that enables the Hummingbird to adjust the RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) of...
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Developed under the auspices of the DARPA, the A160 Turbine Hummingbird (A160T) is a revolutionary vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system capable of endurance greater than 20 hours, with a range of 2,250 nautical miles...
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Bob Mullins from Harmonic Drive gives a run-down of some of their featured offerings, including hollow shaft actuators and custom servo actuators. Servo actuators are an assembly of a brush or brushless servo motor, zero backlash Harmonic Drive precision...
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Harmonic Drive demonstrates semiconductor equipment using their drives and actuators, a MECHATROLINK II servo network, and Soft Servo Systems' SMP controller. The SMP series is a line of general motion controller with up to 32 axes (soon to be 64...
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Bob Mullins explains the operating principles behind the Harmonic Drive strain wave gearing. The mechanism is comprised of three components: Wave Generator, Flexspline, and Circular Spline. The high performance attributes of this gearing technology including...
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Harmonic Drive offers precision gears, gear heads, servo actuators and motion control systems. Harmonic Drives come in many variations and are used in such applications as multi-axis articulated robots, industrial robots, medical equipment, and optical...
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The Dragon Runner Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) is a modular ground robot system capable of both quick reconnaissance and improvised explosive device (IED) disarmament in urban, mountainous or rural environments. Recently, engineers and roboticists...
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Vehicles retrofitted with the Pronto4 System can perform flexible roles in a tele-operational or semi-autonomous mode. The ProntoMimic Software Suite has a series of path creation / following interfaces that perform the task of path creation and maintenance...
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Troy Takach, President & CEO of Kairos Autonomi, takes us through the components of the Pronto4 Agnostic Autonomy System. This compact, modularly-constructed hardware system is capable of installation anywhere in the field in a four-four-four process...