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AACUS Enables Marines To Control The Aircraft On Tablets
by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Julien Rodarte - June 17, 2016

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The AACUS is an autonomy applique kit that enables operations of full-scale rotary-wing aircraft in and out of austere landing zones, tactically, with little human assistance.

“We know how to make things fly, we've been doing it for over 100 years,” said Retired Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley, formerly the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems. “What we don't yet know how to do, is how to couple aircraft and autonomous systems together, but great programs like this are helping us get there.”

Pilots supervise a Bell 206 helicopter during tests of the attached Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (close-up on bottom right) in Bealeton, Virginia, May 25, 2016. Pilots make sure that the system can run smoothly and perform maneuvers the same way a human controlling it would. (Image created by USA Patriotism! from U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Julien Rodarte)
Pilots supervise a Bell 206 helicopter during tests of the attached Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (close-up on bottom right) in Bealeton, Virginia, May 25, 2016. Pilots make sure that the system can run smoothly and perform maneuvers the same way a human controlling it would. (Image created by USA Patriotism! from U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Julien Rodarte)

Aurora is determined to find a way to make a safer, easier way to complete flight missions in a combat environment through the AACUS.

“The AACUS is a sensor package that when installed on an aircraft allows for it to be unmanned,” said Capt. Christopher Alfaro, MAGTF logistics integration officer, logistics division and strategy branch, Headquarters Marine Corps. “Which means we can put this kit on any aircraft and as long as we do the science and engineering behind it, it can fly autonomously.”

AACUS enables a warfighter to control the aircraft via an intuitive application on military issued tablets.

“This system is going to allow pilots to let the system do the risky jobs,” said Maj. Jason Jewell an osprey pilot with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 774, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. “By this time next year we should be flying with the AACUS on the UH-1H.”

Aurora says they plan on testing the capabilities of the program on a UH-1H aircraft from 2017 to early 2018 and plan to implement this technology into the Marine Corps fleet sometime in 2018.

By U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Julien Rodarte
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Copyright 2016

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