Safely deployed
Safely deployed
What at first glance looks like a specialised form of parcel delivery is actually an important step in DLR's Swarming project. The project is developing technologies and algorithms to coordinate and operate entire swarms of uncrewed aerial and ground vehicles from one central control station. In the flight test pictured here in Cochstedt, DLR researchers demonstrated that the automated deployment of a drone from a box works reliably, and that the helicopter, box and deployed drone can communicate with one another. Following this success, the technologies are now to be used in further tests to deploy and control multiple drones simultaneously. Centrally controlled uncrewed vehicles are particularly relevant in crisis situations, for example, when rescue teams cannot reach a site at all, or only at significant risk to their own lives – such as during natural disasters.
