Exosonic introduced the profitable starting of a floor and flight check program to validate the capabilities of its EX-3M “Trident” autonomous, open structure, high-speed, developmental unmanned aerial system (UAS) check plane.
Exosonic designed, manufactured, and introduced the EX-3M to flight check in solely 9 months. The workforce achieved this by quickly iterating the plane design, diversifying the availability chain, and sustaining the meeting course of inside Exosonic.
The Trident will function 1 / 4 scale testbed to validate the autonomy software program that can finally be included into Exosonic’s full-scale supersonic UAV, the EX-3 “Revenant”, the supersonic fifth-generation aerial goal UAS that Exosonic is designing underneath a $1.250 million Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis (SBIR) contract with the USAF. Along with the aerial goal position, Exosonic will examine a modified EX-3 model to serve within the adversary air position as nicely.
The EX-3M was inducted right into a rigorous testing program by finishing a collection of floor taxi assessments on the New Cuyama UAS check vary within the California excessive desert close to Santa Barbara. The bottom testing is being carried out to confirm taxi and takeoff traits upfront of a collection of deliberate Summer time 2023 flights which is able to validate car efficiency and autonomous capabilities.
“I’m extraordinarily pleased with the workforce for getting the Trident car designed, assembled, and into the check program in solely 9 months.” mentioned Norris Tie, Exosonic’s CEO and co-founder. “They labored tirelessly over the previous a number of weeks to succeed in this level.”
Exosonic Chief Expertise Officer and co-founder Timothy MacDonald, PhD described the testing as “A superb starting to a complete testing program. We have been in a position to put our plane by means of its paces out within the discipline and collect some nice outcomes. The information will now be analyzed, and we’ll transfer to additional floor testing and flight testing.” As Exosonic completes the flight check program, the corporate will discover industrial alternatives to leverage the EX-3M as an autonomy testbed or as a analysis car to display USAF vital capabilities. Exosonic is at the moment in discussions with a number of industrial entities to display crewed-uncrewed teaming.
