On the wish list are armored vehicles, mine detectors, helicopters, navigation equipment and night-vision goggles — used and dusty would be fine.
When the parallel pattern came in from New Haven, the coordinates fed directly into the helicopter's navigation system, meaning that the pilots were able to simply turn on the autopilot and let the helicopter fly the search pattern on its own.
Decca is very well suited to navigation of helicopters, however, which usually operate at altitudes well below those at which VOR/DME is most effective.
The estimator provides position and velocity estimates of the slung load and is designed to augment existing navigation in autonomous helicopters.
For navigation, the 12-horsepower helicopter depends on Global Positioning System satellites and a video camera that senses nearby land masses and other dangerous objects.
At MIT alone, researchers have used the Kinect to create a "Minority Report -style computeReport -stylea navigation system for miniature roboticomputerpters and a holographinterfacetranavigationamong other thingsystem
In addition, the helicopter used was not equipped with any Inertial Navigation System (INS) and used its own GPS receiver to navigate.
A range of land, sea and air vehicles including helicopters, trucks, motorbikes and speedboats are available for navigation, and the landscape – based around Bolivia – is scattered with towns and villages to discover.
Finally, students participate in a field training exercise each semester that includes small unit leadership training, military tactics, land navigation, rappelling, obstacle negotiation, and possibly a helicopter orientation ride.
A knowledge-based system, which uses a fuzzy rule-base for a real-time INS/DGPS integrated navigation system on-board a Bell 206 helicopter, has been designed and developed.
