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Re: Mechatronical post# 5236

Monday, 02/18/2013 2:38:40 PM

Monday, February 18, 2013 2:38:40 PM

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Rolla taught me otherwise-


Well In my opinion you could use something very similar to the AN/APR 39 sensors to detect and send signals to existing flight controls. They are very small spiral wound antennas. They are left and right side sensitive but relatively light weight. Another possibility would be the EOMS from the CMOS system which could be lightened up but they detect heat. Minor modifications could alter them to sense motion or barriers.

In civil use the components would not have to be hardened and could be EMI shielded with nothing more than tin foil. Small microprocessors could drive the system much like the SCAS and CAS systems that are used on the AH-64 and AH-1’s. Nothing hard about the systems because you have existing flight controls that are electrically driven in all drones. I relly don’t think you need the 3 ring laser gyro systems to drive a simple system here.

Now that is the Caulfield Hillbilly speaking along with his 20+ years’ experience as a maintenance test pilot for the U.S. Army talking.