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Dr Donough Wilson Dr Wilson is innovation lead at aviation, defence, and homeland security innovation consultants, VIVID/futureVision. His defence innovations include the cockpit vision system that protects military aircrew from asymmetric high-energy laser attack. He was first to propose the automatic tracking and satellite download of airliner black box and cockpit voice recorder data in the event of an airliner’s unplanned excursion from its assigned flight level or track. For his ‘outstanding and practical contribution to the safer operation of aircraft’ he was awarded The Sir James Martin Award 2018/19, by the Honourable Company of Air Pilots. Paul Weighell Paul has been involved with electronics, computer design and programming since 1966. He has worked in the real-time and failsafe data acquisition and automation industry using mainframes, minis, micros and cloud-based hardware on applications as diverse as defence, Siberian gas pipeline control, UK nuclear power, robotics, the Thames Barrier, Formula One and automated financial trading systems. Ian Williams-Wynn Ian has been involved with unmanned and autonomous systems for more than 20 years. He started his career in the military, working with early prototype unmanned systems and exploiting imagery from a range of unmanned systems from global suppliers. He has also been involved in ground-breaking research including novel power and propulsion systems, sensor technologies, communications, avionics and physical platforms. His experience covers a broad spectrum of domains from space, air, maritime and ground, and in both defence and civil applications including, more recently, connected autonomous cars. Unmanned Systems Technology’s consultants The Greene Rubber Company has developed a ring and bushing isolator, the UAV3004, to protect payloads, IMUs and powertrain components against vibration (writes Rory Jackson). It can be made from silicone or neoprene, giving it operating temperature ranges of -54 to +149 C and -29 to +82 C respectively. “More and more commercial UAVs are being presented with problems that require shock and vibration control, as they become more and more complex,” said the company’s Robert Schleicher. “The weight constraints on UAV components often rule out the use of most vibration isolators currently on the market, so we’re trying to apply some of our engineering knowhow from the military aerospace industry to new trends in the commercial UAV space that focus on micro-mounts. “The UAV3004 will work in much the same way as the bubble mounts that are ubiquitous in the market, but it uses a ring-and-bushing design that will prevent the mount from separating from the structure, unlike the bubble-style design.” The exact shape of the UAV3004 has come from the company’s knowledge of anti-vibration mounts and FEA studies using the Abaqus software for modelling and optimising the dynamic qualities of the unit. It will undergo testing on the company’s shake tables, drop-testing machines and other in-house systems to evaluating how it performs in flight. Shock isolation Component protection 16 Platform one October/November 2019 | Unmanned Systems Technology The UAV3004 isolator works in much the same way as bubble mounts but uses a ring-and-bushing design