78 Show report | Xponential 2023 with eight vertical lift rotors across twin booms. The rear end of each boom features an electric pusher-rotor and an inward-slanting tail fin with ruddervators. It can fly for up to 175 km while carrying a 3 kg payload (primarily cargo, or survey payloads such as cameras or Lidars if required), at speeds of up to 200 kph. Swoop also estimates that up to 130 km can be achieved with the same payload in headwinds. “It has a maximum payload capacity of 6 kg, and is modular to the extent that a user could do a medical supply delivery in one direction, then run an aerial video survey on the return flight,” Kennedy said. “Our software stack allows us to fly 30 aircraft at once, for instance overseeing multiple individual delivery missions in the loop from a GCS, or overseeing a team or swarm of Kites working together to create an orthomosaic map of a large area.” Also attending the showwas mRobotics (also known as Mayan Robotics), which discussed its new Control Zero OEM board for highly SWaPoptimised flight control. “It’s a 3.25 g flight controller, with triple-redundant IMUs and compatibility with Ardupilot, PX4 and most opensource solutions,” said Leonardo Garcia. “We have other carrier boards for it, or end-users can design their own, as we provide all the necessary documentation for OEMs to integrate the board into their systems. “We also have different package sizes to allow for different resonant frequencies, so for very complex airframes like tiltrotor VTOL-transitioning UAVs that have many actuators and hence complicated vibration profiles, you can filter those out with whatever configuration you want. “One IMU is software-damped, while the others rely on mechanical damping, allowing you to get the best of both worlds in terms of arbitration between the three IMUs.” A similar design philosophy has been applied to the company’s other products, including its recently unveiled Control One, which is targeted at uncrewed aircraft needing higher resilience. It incorporates a new sensor selection while keeping the same philosophy as the Zero, but each IMU has its own power domain, as does the MCU. In addition to keeping these systems isolated, it integrates 16 Mbytes of external flash memory, Garcia noting that flight controllers of its size and weight typically incorporate only 2 Mbytes. The system will be officially released soon, at which time its other physical and performance specifications will be published. One Stop Systems (OSS) exhibited the latest in its range of ruggedised, high-performance edge computing systems, primarily for GPU computing or flash storage in harsh environments such as autonomous freight trucks or heavy industrial UAVs. “Edge computers these days need to contain the same grades of hardware you’d find in a data centre, but also have very different power inputs, cooling systems, shock and vibration profiles and more,” explained Jaan Mannik. “From a GPU standpoint, our 4U Pro is a PCIe Gen 5 expansion accelerator that can support eight Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs, or the new, more powerful H100 GPUs that can be connected seamlessly over PCI Express to an existing server. Any server that has a PCI Express slot can therefore now have up to eight GPUs connected, turning that one server into its own supercomputer, and up to four servers can be connected, with the system designed to accept 400 W cards.” OSS also makes the EB4400, a halfrack version of the 4U Pro, for edge June/July 2023 | Uncrewed Systems Technology The Rigel supercomputer fromOne Stop Systems mRobotics’ Control Zero OEM board for SWaP-optimised flight control
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