A Journey into Unmanned Systems

9.4 – Blog Case Analysis Effectiveness For your case analysis project you worked collaboratively to research, develop, and present a topic associated with major theme of problems or issues associated with UAS design, operations, or regulations. Discuss the effectiveness of the Case Analysis tool in this course. Focus specifically on the utility of Case Analysis as a tool for decision making and how it has (or does not have) utility in your current line of work, future anticipated career, or past experiences (identify at least two examples). Provide any recommendations for how the process or project (e.g., requirements, format, group interaction, topical focus, etc.) could be improved to better support building and expanding student experience for the eventual or further development of their careers. The Case Analysis Tool (CAT) used in this course is a very effective tool. The CAT allows the student to research the subject matter of their choice and gather as much information as p

In this activity, you will develop a response to the following: Natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires have a devastating impact on communities where these events occur.  Lives are lost, citizens are injured, and infrastructure and property are destroyed. In the aftermath resources are limited, while the response and recovery is hampered by reduced communications and infrastructure damage.  Propose a series of derived/low-level requirements for the design of a UAS down to the element level (e.g., air vehicle element, command & control [C2], payload, data-link [communications], and support equipment) to support response and recovery efforts. Option Requirements: Payload, Data Link, Cost. Phase - 3 1. Payload 3.1 [Shall be capable of color daytime video operation up to 500 feet AGL] 3.1.1 Personnel Shall place test stand 500 feet from UAS/Block Camera. 3.1.2 Test objective Shall be placed on test stand. 3.1.3 UAS/Block Camera shall be place

The particular UAS mission use I am highlighting is that of medical delivery in a foreign country. I was made aware of this usage via a Ted Talk video forum given by Andreas Raptopoulos, which was assigned media viewing footage in a previous class. I was particularly impressed with UAV's being used to perform humanitarian aid to sick and ailing people. I was impressed because UAV's are given so much media coverage highlighting ISR, military, emergency, and commercial usage, but not much exposure is given to UAV's performing humanitarian missions. The mission focuses particularly on delivering much needed medicine to doctor’s thru-out the rural segment in the country of Africa. The terrain or landscape between the pharmaceutical storage facility and doctors treating patients is varied in its composition. Some areas of route are mountainous, some are filled with sand dunes with desert like conditions, some areas are populated with dense forest vegetation, some roads may be

Some Questions to consider when integrating UAV's into the NAS. How can the separation of unmanned aircraft be monitored and maintained (among other unmanned aircraft and manned aircraft) in the National Airspace System (NAS)? The monitoring and maintaining of UAV's in the NAS is a challenging objective. In order to operate the UAS safely and effectively the communication control and commands must work in unison to achieve the safe operation of a UAV. The tracking telemetry data which yields its position and overall functionality must be updated on an ongoing cycle in order to know the UAV's position at any given time. The separation of unmanned and manned aircraft could be achieved by frequency allocation. Separating the signal spectrum between UAV's and manned aircraft is one way to keep data communication and controls separate. Determinants such as signal choice (digital or analog) could be delegated to each platform. The use of GPS and antenna can also be

Systems Engineers face many problems which may have several different resolutions. Some problems have more than one solution. The Systems Engineer at times must make the best decision utilizing the available resources to achieve the main objective. Having stated this here are my responses to the research project titled “Weeding out a Solution” which provides a scenario of problems brought upon by various departments, that a Systems Engineer might face in the course of a workday in regards to a UAV weight design issue.  A UAS is to be designed for precision crop-dusting. In the middle of the design process, the system is found to be overweight. ·           Two subsystems – 1) Guidance, Navigation & Control [flying correctly] and 2) Payload delivery [spraying correctly] have attempted to save costs by purchasing off-the-shelf hardware, rather than a custom design, resulting in both going over their originally allotted weight budgets. Each team has suggested that the OTHER team

A Comparison between The Teledyne-Ryan Aeronautical Firebee and EMT Luna Timothy Ortega Jr. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University                                                                                    ASCI 530 Unmanned Systems                                                      Assignment 1.5 Module 1 Submission                                                                      August 11, 2016             A successful UAS design (determined by missions completed and UAS retrieval) is the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Firebee and its various variants. The Firebee was extremely reliable according to a NOVA documentary “83 percent of the Firebees flown during the Vietnam War returned to fly another day” (NOVA, 2002). The Firebee was developed primarily as a target aircraft for use in training scenarios as noted by Pignataro “ The Teledyne Ryan Firebee was first introduced to the Department of Defense in 1951, when the US Navy required a jet powe