ARES Combat Medic Unmanned Air Vehicle

PiAC is developing the Aerial Embedded Reconfigurable System (ARES) flight demonstrator Combat Medic UAC platform for Phase III flight demonstration. The ARES is an innovative modular multi-mission vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) comprised of a common Flight Module and interchangeable Mission Payload Modules. The ARES provides unprecedented military utility because it combines significant VTOL and wing borne performance capabilities in an extremely small footprint, coupled with the flexibility to reconfigure in support of Combat Medic and a broad range of other missions. This flexibility is enabled by an advanced VTOL flight control system that manages statically unstable control axes to stabilize the aircraft and achieve the desired flying qualities. Dynamic inversion/effector blending flight control laws (algorithms) are employed on a triplex redundant fly by wire flight control system.