A Journey into Unmanned Systems

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