Aerospace capabilities

Autonomous systems Our reputation for being at the forefront of autonomous and space systems, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management has been established through more than 30 years of research into this field. We cover all types of autonomous vehicles including airborne, ground and marine, as well as space. Our research spans from fundamental research and development to single client contract research and development. Recent research includes: • the airborne monitoring of ground traffic behaviour for hidden threats by autonomous sensor platforms, • the safe integration of Unmanned Air Mobility (UAM) in non-segregated airspaces, • developing an analytical framework for understanding the behaviours of multiple unmanned aerial aircraft and • creating strategic and tactical deconflict algorithms for unmanned surface vessels operating out of human eyesight. We have an outstanding international reputation for the quality of our work and our capability to perform both theoretical and experimental studies. This is supplemented with a close collaboration with regulators including the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Our capability is being enhanced with the establishment of National Beyond Visual Line of Sight Experimentation Corridor (NBEC) and recruitment of two leading academics in the fields of AI, Human Machine Interface (Professor Gokhan Inalhan and Professor Weisi Guo,Turing Fellow). “The age of unmanned aircraft is upon us — and this no longer means small purpose-built drones and remotely operated miniature vehicles. Last month, a team of British engineers (BAE Systems and Cranfield Aerospace) announced that an adapted conventional Jetstream passenger plane had flown 500 miles in UK airspace without the aid of a human operator.” The Engineer

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Aerospace capabilities