DARPA Shadow UAV damage-tolerant flight control test

Video of the October 2010 test flight of an AAI RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins damage-tolerant flight control system. Under the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Damage Tolerance progra, 20 inches of the Shadow's wing was blown off in flight. The autonomous control system automatically recovered the aircraft to controlled flight, adjusted the autopilot gains to compensate for the loss of an aileron, and landed the UAV safely.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• aerospace
• aviation
• aircraft
• unmanned
• UAV
• Shadow
• DARPA

[thydusk666]

Beautiful - so the day when these systems will be implemented on civil aircraft is not that far... Hope one day you can have the option to land by drag-n drop the landing icon on the airport shown on the map :)

[xxxxxHavocxxxxx]

looks like autonomous fighter jet is on its way

[roidroid]

I thought all UAVs piloted by simple neural network programs were damage-tolerant like this.

Ain't hard, Bruce Simpson's DIY cruse missile used a neural network and he programmed that himself.

[briansmobile1]

Utah baby!

[TheJackyBear]

AWESOME... i want one... in black please... RUSH DELVIERY