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Navy Tests Drone Without GPS To Land On Moving Ships

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Navy Tests Drone Without GPS To Land On Moving Ships
An unmanned system maneuvers over a scale model of a U.S. Navy Yard Patrol craft inside an indoor flight testing facility at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). The controlled testing environment allows engineers to validate computer vision and flight control algorithms that track relative ship movement before taking the software to live-flight sea trials. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Chuck Regner)

The Navy this week announced that over the summer it successfully proved out software that can have a drone navigate missions then land on moving Navy ships without GPS or pilot control. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) on Oct. 14 announced a live-flight demonstration that it said proved a tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) can fly mission tasks and execute a recovery on a “pitching vessel at sea” when satellite navigation is jammed or unavailable by using internal…

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