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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