Issue 45 | Uncrewed Systems Technology Aug/Sept 2022 Tidewie USV Tupan | Performance monitoring | Bayonet 350 | UAVs insight | Xponential 2022 | ULPower UL350i and UL350iHPS | Elroy Air Chaparral | Gimbals | Clogworks Dark Matter

68 T he AUVSI Xponential show is the largest annual technology exposition in the world for the autonomous and robotic vehicles industry. With so many new systems and subsystems making headlines, and companies looking to share their latest innovations with us, the challenge of fitting all the news into one issue of this magazine rears its head every year. To that end, we present this second half of technology announcements and new developments from the show, to round off the remaining – but by no measure less newsworthy – items we encountered at that seminal event. Team PoliMove of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) dominated the headlines for the second day of Xponential by achieving the world land speed record for an autonomous vehicle. The record was set at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle landing strip – the world’s longest runway, at 5 miles long, and therefore an ideal place for high- speed tests – with the standards for the record having been published by the FIA. “The FIA requires that you take the average speed of two consecutive runs: out and then back again, a kilometre in both directions, and we achieved an average speed of 192.2 mph, or 309.3 kph, over the old record of 175.5 mph,” said Paul Mitchell, president of the IAC. “The IAC racecar is manufactured by Dallara, and is powered by a four- cylinder Honda Performance engine, modified with some turbos for additional speed. We wanted to make sure all the teams had the same car, same hardware, same initial base software and the same tried-and-true engine. “That was largely because there’s so much complexity in the autonomy system that we didn’t want teams to have to look after some exotic powertrain with untested parts – at least not in the initial 2021 and 2022 events.” The autonomy stack on each racecar is designed and integrated by the teams Following his highlights in issue 44, Rory Jackson offers another wealth of new products and services announced at this year’s expo for the uncrewed industry August/September 2022 | Uncrewed Systems Technology Extra credits On the second day of AUVSI Xponential 2022, a self-driving racecar programmed by Team PoliMove set a world land speed record for autonomous vehicles (Courtesy of the Indy Autonomous Challenge)