Autonomous Cross Wind Landings for UAVs

By: Lance Winslow
Submitted: 2007-01-17 15:50:42
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Telerobotics are fine for flying UAVs or unmanned aerial vehicles, but due to the half second delay from the satellite and the need for better control on landings, it makes more sense to have autonomous Cross wind landings software built into the control system of the UAVs.

Autonomous Cross wind landings for UAVs is possible and it should be desired, additionally if an unmanned aerial vehicle encounters a surface-to-air missile then it will need to take drastic measures and a half second delay from the satellite is much too long to prevent a strike from that surface-to-air missile.

Both Cross wind landings and the evasion of surface-to-air missiles or even air-to-air missiles will need to be considered and software must be designed to take this into consideration. I believe the best way to do this is to have sensors on the aircraft take hundreds if not thousands of measurements per second and use those to implement the controls. By the flying a UAVs with a pilot on the ground, who is the delayed by half of a second to respond with the proper flight controls, the unmanned aerial vehicle may already be in a position which is unrecoverable from the situation.

What I'm saying it is; the current system is not good enough and it is unacceptable and we must press our research and development teams to work much harder to solve this problem. Consider this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

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