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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Rockwell Shows Off Self-Healing UAV

Rockwell Collins plans to demonstrate the autonomous recovery and safe landing of an unmanned aircraft after severe damage to the wing and tail under an extension to its damage-tolerant flight control work with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Under the previous phase, the company demonstrated its flight-control software could recover and land an F/A-18 scale model after 60% of its wing was blown off. "We'll expand on that to show more realistic damage," says David Vos, senior director of control technologies. "We'll take out a big fraction of the wing and horizontal and vertical tails."

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