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Unmanned Aircraft Systems
(UAS)

UAS - different airframe designs Stemming from an AFRL, Air Vehicles Directorate sponsored SBIR program, Guild developed a versatile, fully autonomous UAS. The system, now Guild-coined Flying LOw Cost Swarming Sensors (FLOCSS), was specifically developed to leverage the advantage of numbers (e.g. multiple agents) to provide a more capable and scalable solution to the general challenge of finding, identifying, and tracking threats. Originally architected for WMD threats, to our knowledge, FLOCSS is the only UAS specifically designed for this mission. WMD threats are diverse in nature and particular sensor technologies offer advantages in detection and identification of specific agents or groups of agents (e.g. nerve agents, VOCs); therefore the system features robust interfaces to support a wide range of WMD sensors such as those for chemical agents, radiation, toxic industrial chemicals, and biological agents. Additionally, the sensor payload and onboard software system is configurable to support combinations of sensor suites for dual use purposes. For example, chemical agent sensors combined with EO/IR imaging sensors.

FLOCSS was designed from the ground up with a multi-agent mindset. Consequently, the Guild team is focused on advancing and preserving versatility and autonomy. These themes have translated into a robust system architecture that enables it to be scalable from a single agent to as many as 10, and can be operated as manually controlled UAVs to a fully autonomous multi-UAV system with onboard sensor-driven autonomous behavior. Autonomy is facilitated through a Linux-based, UAV-resident mission management system that features an open and robust framework for internally-developed algorithms as well as integration with collaborator's or 3rd party software. When operated in highUnmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) autonomy mode the system has been demonstrated to significantly reduce the operator burden associated with multi-UAV operations management. Complementing these UAS capabilities is an intuitive Operator Interface (OI), which functions as the gateway to the system's health status updates, performance metrics and data presentation/visualization. The OI provides a simulation interface for system behavior/algorithm examination, while being architected to permit a nearly seamless transition from simulation to actual flight. The system is also designed so that it can be accessed through a secure IP connection, providing multiple networking and interoperability options with additional command and control systems. All this capability is offered at a fraction of the cost of many existing UASs.

Guild has developed the FLOCSS system with versatility and autonomy in mind. If you have an application that would greatly benefit from our advancements in these areas or seek a collaborative arrangement, please contact us. For information about using Guild's FLOCSS UAS for R&D purposes, please see: US R&D. Visualizations of our cooperative behavior algorithms in simulation can be made available at: COMING SOON.




 
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