Supporting Unmanned Aerial Systems
AUSTRALIAN ARMY Small Unmanned Aerial System
Cyborg Dynamics provided technical advisory and project management to JAR Aerospace as part of the defence innovation hub priority notice for Small Unmanned Aerial System (SUAS) replacement to the WASP UAS. This project was a 10 week project where cyborg dynamics managed a team of airframe design, computer vision, Guidance Navigation and Control, communications, ground control systems, payloads and electronics. Cyborg Dynamics was also responsible for the system specification and military engagement to capture the relevant requirements.
The project was delivered on time and on budget to the capability manager of UAS of the Australian Army in June 2018.
A rhino is killed every 8 hours in South Africa. It is extremely challenging for rangers to cover the large quantities of ground required to successfully intercept poachers. members from the cyborg dynamics team partnered up with the IAPF in the development of a UAV platform for intercepting poachers in the Mozambique and South Africa regions in 2015. The services provided included systems integration of flight control auto pilot, mechanical design of payload retraction mechanism, computer vision algorithms for tracking and finished with flight testing.
SUAS designed in collaboration with Cyborg Dynamics Engineering and Skyborne Technologies (photo courtesy of JAR Aerospace)
IAPF Reconnaissance and Surveillance Drone
Mugin UAV integrated with autopilot and tuned for waypoint navigation for IAPF UAS program
Payload retraction design
Blob detection algorithms used to discriminate animals from thermal imagery.
Unfortunately due to project funding, subsequent geographical location of the IAPF counter poaching team and South African RPAS regulation, this project was discontinued in 2016.
CUSTOM UxV Integrations
Cyborg has worked on a number of custom UxV integrations from custom payloads on COTS UAS to bespoke ground controller interfaces for UGVs using Qt / QML. Cyborg has also supported bids and grant applications with UAS providers for these capabilities.
