Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Exercise to Assess ... - Mitre

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UNCLASSIFIED 2 Exercise Systems and Architecture The hardware required for this project included a suitable UAS aircraft to carry the digital video and CDL equipment aloft; a Flight Control System (FCS) to make the aircraft autonomous and provide metadata for the video downlink exercise; a digital video system and a CDL; TP-CDL to receive, display and disseminate the down-linked video; and metadata and a Ground Control Station (GCS), operating at 900 Megahertz (MHz), to control and monitor the Outlaw during the exercise. The overall architecture of the system is shown in Figure 1. Ground Systems 2.1 UAS Aircraft UNCLASSIFIED Video Camera Cornet Encoder Cubic mini-CDL Transceiver UAS Aircraft NTSC analog video MPEG transport stream Ethernet Ku band CDL RF Link TP-CDL Terminal UAS Camera control PWM USIP formatted metadata RS-232 serial MPEG transport stream VCU Flight Control System VCU autopilot status/control data RS-232 serial C2 Systems COTS 900 MHz SS RF Modem Figure 1 CDL Exercise System Architecture COTS 900 MHz SS RF Modem VCU Autopilot System VCU Ground Control Station The Unmanned Aircraft (UA) used for this exercise is the Outlaw Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target (RPVT) manufactured by Griffon Aerospace. The Outlaw, shown in Figure 2, has a 9 foot fuselage and a 13.6 foot wingspan. It is powered by a 17 horsepower (HP) gasoline engine mounted in the tail. As normally equipped, the Outlaw does not have landing gear. Instead, it is pneumatically launched from a rail launcher and it skids to a landing on its belly. That latter aspect of the Outlaw caused a few difficulties in this exercise and is described later. Ethernet 900MHz SS Modem RF Link USB serial 2-1
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