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AeroVironment Selects Quattro FMS
May 9, 2023 - Applied Navigation is pleased to provide components for the AeroVironment Jump-20 vehicle. The Quattro Flight Management System (FMS) and Vigilant Spirit provide the navigation, control, and user interface for the Jump-20 UAS. The Jump-20 is the winner of the Army FTUAS Increment-1 owing to its 30-pound payload capacity, Quattro Hybrid
April 20, 2021 - Applied Navigation has now demonstrated full transition on multiple hybrid VTOL vehicle types. Our controller uses several innovative technologies to smoothly blend from hover to wing-borne flight. Quad-plane, tilt-rotor, and tilt-wing are supported. More announcements and videos to come this summer.Payload Control in Vigilant Spirit
January 21, 2021 - Vigilant Spirit Control Station with Quattro autopilot and Orion gimbal
Applied Navigation has successfully tested a new payload specific module for Vigilant Spirit Control Station. Vigilant Spirit is a Stanag-4586 compatible user interface that supports multiple vehicles, each with one or more payloads. Both vehicle and payload Level of Interoperability (LOI) are requested and granted according to the standard. Quattro demonstrates fully autonomous mission
November 23, 2020 - The Quattro autopilot successfully demonstrated autonomous takeoff, waypoint tracking, and auto landing with minimal input from the user. The flight was conducted with Applied Navigation’s 760-size electric helicopter at a test site in rural Virginia.
Applied Navigation’s waypoint tracking guidance is unique because it forward-predicts in time.