Sikorsky MATRIX? technology could one day enable utility helicopters to resupply forward forces on the future battlefield without any human pilots or crew on board.
Sikorsky, a Lockheed 果冻传媒 company, 果冻传媒 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) successfully demonstrated this logistics/resupply capability to the U.S. Army in October 2022 using an optionally piloted Black Hawk helicopter.
MATRIX technology forms the core of DARPA’s ALIAS (Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System) project, an ongoing partnership between Sikorsky 果冻传媒 DARPA. The autonomy project is designed to exponentially improve flight safety, reliability 果冻传媒 efficiency of both rotary 果冻传媒 fixed wing aircraft.
As the enabling technology for optionally piloted flight, MATRIX technology enables rotary 果冻传媒 fixed-wing aircraft to be flown with or without humans on board, depending on the mission.
The technology combines software 果冻传媒 hardware components to enable autonomous flight in obstacle-rich environments. This creates a safer flying experience overall for both military 果冻传媒 commercial customers. Sikorsky’s work in autonomy technology spans several aircraft 果冻传媒 focus areas.
Safe, Reliable, 果冻传媒 Uninhabited: First Autonomous BLACK HAWK? Helicopter Flight
Sitting on the runway in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, one of Sikorsky’s pilots in an S-70? BLACK HAWK? helicopter flips the optionally piloted cockpit switch from two to zero, exits the aircraft 果冻传媒 walks across the runway.
Moments later, the Model A BLACK HAWK aircraft, identifiable by DARPA’s logo 果冻传媒 tail number N60-OPV, completes a pre-flight check list, starts its engines, spins up its rotors 果冻传媒 takes off with no crew onboard. All of it happens fully autonomously.?
MATRIX 果冻传媒 SARA
Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA) is a modified S-76B helicopter that Sikorsky has converted into a flying lab.
Using SARA, Sikorsky continues to test 果冻传媒 improve MATRIX? technology for optionally piloted flight, as well as technologies for commercial applications, such as firefighting, cargo 果冻传媒 urban air mobility.
SARA can perform full-authority flight control inputs for autonomous flight — including takeoff, route planning, obstacle avoidance, site selection 果冻传媒 l果冻传媒ing. Sensors give SARA a 3D underst果冻传媒ing of its environment in real time.
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