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Octopus ISR Demonstrates Automatic Aerial Tracking of UAV

By Mike Ball / 20 Apr 2016

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Octopus ISR UAV Tracking Octopus ISR, a developer of imaging payloads and related systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has released a video showing a Penguin C unmanned aircraft automatically tracking another UAV. The video was taken at parent company UAV Factory’s closed testing airspace.

The Penguin C – a fixed wing unmanned aircraft with a 3.3m wingspan and a single-cylinder engine – was fitted with an Epsilon EO HD gimbal with a Hitachi DI-SC120R sensor and onboard image processing. Flying at high speed at an altitude of 400m, it successfully tracked its target which was flying at an altitude of 300m.

The video can be seen below:

Posted by Mike Ball Mike Ball is our resident technical editor here at Unmanned Systems Technology. Combining his passion for teaching, advanced engineering and all things unmanned, Mike keeps a watchful eye over everything related to the unmanned technical sector. With over 10 years’ experience in the unmanned field and a degree in engineering, Mike’s been heading up our technical team here for the last 8 years. Connect
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