A look at efforts by the Autonomy and
Navigation Technology (ANT) Center located at the Air Force
Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Projects included human and machine teaming, autonomy, and
navigation, that contribute to the capabilities of the U.S. Air
Force.
The Autonomy and Navigation Technology (ANT) Center is
a forward-looking research center seeking to identify and solve
tomorrow's most challenging navigation and autonomous and
cooperative control problems. The ANT Center's goal is to develop
navigation technology that ensures we can navigate anywhere,
anytime, using anything. The ANT Center focuses on three research
thrusts: autonomous and cooperative systems, non-GPS precision
navigation, and robust GPS navigation/NAVWAR. Under Air Force
Research Laboratory sponsorship, the ANT Center designed and built a
GPS-based relative navigation system that determines cm-level
relative positions between two flying aircraft.
The Center also developed autonomous
formation flight control algorithms and successfully flew the entire
system at the USAF Test Pilot School, accomplishing the first fully
autonomous precision formation flight appropriate for aerial
refueling.
U.S. Air Force video by Staff
Sgt. Nathan Tucker - February 2018 Edit by USA
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