Integrated Autonomous Sense-and-Avoid System

To address the Navy’s need for autonomous sense-and-avoid (SA) capability for unmanned aerial systems (UASs) operating in the National Air Space and in-theater, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Integrated Autonomous Sense-and-Avoid (IASA) system. This system is based on in-house infrared omnidirectional detection technology, and data fusion and integration with a novel open adaptive architecture for detecting, tracking, and predicting objects in the UAS’s nearspace to ensure safe maneuvering/acting. This innovative IASA system design offers automated full coverage of due regard for all ADS-B compliant and noncompliant flights/objects and can be used for manned and unmanned aviation. The innovation in the adaptive open architecture gives IASA high reliability and adaptability to data lack/loss from one or several sources. The system can be applied to all UASs because it is independent of UAV proprietary interfaces and size. It is compact, lightweight (