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UAV learns to think for itself - now technology will transition to military

By Mike Hanlon

22:00 January 21, 2005 PST

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GT Max, the first rotary wing UAV, is able to learn as it flies, maneuver aggressively and...

GT Max, the first rotary wing UAV, is able to learn as it flies, maneuver aggressively and automatically plan a route through obstacles thanks to its Open Control Platform system.

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The final experiment, recently conducted at the Military Operations Urban Terrain site in Fort Benning represents five years of collaboration between Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.

Georgia Tech's principal investigators on the project are Dr. Daniel Schrage and Dr. Eric Johnson, professors in Aerospace Engineering; and Dr. George Vachtsevanos, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Georgia Tech team was selected by DARPA to be the systems integrator for the entire rotary wing UAV project, integrating engineering advances from a distinguished group of other corporate and university researchers.

The project was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

Click here to read all about the work performed at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility (UAVRF) at the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

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