Drone Video Platform—Collision Avoidance, Situational Awareness, and Communications STL-039-17, Year 2 of 2
- Nevada National Security Site, Mission Support and Test Services LLC
At the beginning of FY 2018, the collision avoidance task of this project was dropped because it had become a “commercial off-the-shelf” product for rotary drones, but it was still considered a very difficult problem for fixed wing drones.
In the second quarter of FY 2018, R. Trainham took over the project and decided to redirect efforts into testing a variety of sensors on a variety of platforms. The core module task was also dropped from the project because it duplicated what was already available commercially.
Since last year’s SDRD final review, we have conducted flight tests in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wisconsin. We have flown five different gamma detectors, a chemical detector and sampler, an optical spectrometer, and a point LIDAR on quadcopters, hexcopters, and the fixed wing T-28 and Sandstorm.
We have collaborated with H3D, USI, Virginia Tech, and ORNL.
In the coming year, we will continue those collaborations, and will add BYU and INL as collaborators.
- Research Organization:
- Nevada National Security Site/Mission Support and Test Services LLC
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Programs (DP) (NA-10)
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003624
- OSTI ID:
- 1498756
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV/03624--0255
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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