The UAS will integrate Ubihere’s next-generation positioning system, which works independently of global positioning system (GPS) to identify the UAS’s location and movement.
Ubihere officials state that the aim of this project with the USAF is to build a demo system that will fly, land, and hover autonomously independent of GPS tracking; the UAS’s position data will then be compared and correlated with that of GPS. The UAS team at The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering will support Ubihere as it tests the drone, which be based on the company’s proprietary multisensor hardware tracking tags and AI software to focus on a given object’s movement and position in real time and much more accurately than legacy real-time location systems.