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AeroVironment Unveils New Ground Control System For Its Unmanned Assets

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, July 7th, 2021

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AeroVironment Unveils New Ground Control System For Its Unmanned Assets

Crysalis Ultralight GCS. Photo: AeroVironment.

AeroVironment [AVAV] on Wednesday detailed its new Crysalis ground control system designed to offer users of its unmanned capabilities a modular, standardized tool to control multiple assets simultaneously. “The warfighter’s faced with lots of different complex systems and assets, such as [drones], ground robots, air robots, etc. Crysalis is the window to all those systems. What it does is it simplifies the interface and the interaction between the warfighter and all these different assets they have,” Wahid Nawabi, the company’s…

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