solutions meet industry standards for EMC, and minimise the chance of interference between GCS components, or from the GCS to its user’s peripherals or uncrewed vehicles when nearby. With advancements in companies’ storage and management facilities, testing data can now be recorded and kept traceable via each unit’s serial number. This enables customers – and maintenance technicians in particular – to check their received GCSs were proven operational by the manufacturer, providing assurance that returns among the now thousands of these systems being produced for the uncrewed space will remain low in the years ahead. Tomorrow’s GCS With high-end, uncrewed systems customers becoming more aware of their core requirements in a GCS, the evolution of mission-management and monitoring consoles will be increasingly steered towards improvements in usability, human/machine interaction, and the ability for greater numbers of vehicles to be managed smoothly and securely by fewer operators (from more locations). Resilience to cyber attacks and other remote threats in myriad environments will also become paramount in control solutions, not only among defence users, but also civil and industrial ones, given the potential for damage and disruption that even one remotely seized UAV can cause. Additionally, some GCS designers are questioning whether conventional control surfaces – including yokes, paddles, joysticks and other mainstays of crewed aircraft cockpits – are truly the best tools for the job when it comes to uncrewed operations management. Future designs of GCS products can be expected to increasingly experiment with unusual (relative to present-day equipment) styles of control peripherals that blur the lines between joystick, toggle, PC, mouse and other well-known items, with the aim of creating new, as yet unnamed, devices. More eye-catching contenders along these lines can be expected to be unveiled in the years ahead by companies aiming to create something more ergonomic, convenient and intuitive than their 20th-century predecessors – gaming controllers included. Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Frank Severinsen and Frederik Bergenfelt Friis of UXV Technologies, Torsten Appelhagen of TM IT-Systemhaus, Sam Worthington of Worthington Sharpe, Matt Paddock of Autonodyne, Marvin Van Lith and Olaf Keijzers of Acecore Technologies, Howard Loewen of MicroPilot, Iwi Lin of Twinhead International Corporation, and Miguel Angel de Frutos of UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesia for their help in researching this article. • Rugged, compact housing with no moving parts • Calculates dynamic true wind speed and direction based upon the apparent wind • Precise measurement data delivered via RS232, RS422 or CAN bus AIRMAR’s ultrasonic WeatherStation® Multisensors have made measuring and monitoring real-time, site-specific weather easy for both dynamic and fixed positions. 3-Axis Compass Relative Humidity Ultrasonic Wind Air Temperature Barometric Pressure 10 Hz GPS 3-Axis Accelerometer Rain Measurement Solar Stabilization 3-Axis Rate Gyro See the complete line at WEATHERSTATIONWX.COM Real-time weather — made simple
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