»Air Force Research Laboratory
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio
~ AFRL researchers provided technical and operational support to The Ohio State University's Collaborative Center of Control Science (CCCS)
~ during unmanned air vehicle (UAV) flight tests
~ CCCS UAV flight tests will aid efforts to determine the usefulness of UAVs for future intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions,
~ as well as the most effective use of UAV resources in a cooperative environment
~ The battlefield air targeting (BAT)-III UAV completed five successful flights during testing conducted at Camp Atterbury, Indiana
~ BAT-III is a small, low-cost, autonomous UAV capable of delivering high-quality video telemetry to a ground station
~ the test effort enabled researchers to gather flight data for UAV modeling,
~ while providing UAV operators the opportunity to gain experience in autonomous and manual landings
~ operators also gathered imaging data of test targets and tested the experimental ground station
~ AFRL scientists provided safety and management oversight;
~ the emergency remote control pilot; general assistance with the overall test activity; and
~ technical development of the algorithms needed for UAV cooperation, which is yet to be tested
~ additional testing is scheduled for the spring and will include flight tests of multiple UAVs

»Collaborative Center of Control Science
~ AFRL, DARPA, NASA, Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon,MIT..
~ the technical focus is on basic and applied research on cooperative control of groups of uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs) and
~ clusters of satellites, aerodynamic flow control, and control of reusable hypersonic launch vehicles

»Ohio State Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

»Air Force Office of Scientific Research
~ AFOSR's mission is to discover, shape, and champion basic science that profoundly impacts the future Air Force

»U.S.Naval Research Laboratory