Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center in Pittsburgh (NREC) is supporting Lockheed Martin’s automated flight project with the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). The Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) will provide artificial intelligence and autonomous sensing and perception technologies, including threat- and obstacle-detection and avoidance systems and automatic landing capabilities. The system will allow robotic helicopters to take off, fly and deliver supplies on their own without a human operator providing guidance from the ground with a smart phone-like device.
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