Aviation 2016 Demand for UnManned

The confluence of machine intelligence and aeronautics is the next great revolution in air transportation.  

In attempting to introduce an entirely new approach to vehicle management into the world’s safest transportation system, the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry must merge two entirely different cultures:

1)  Aviation safety-based and inherently risk averse

2)  Market-driven and experiment-based — while managing performance and timeline risks to maximizing opportunities.
 

This dedicated symposium brings together stakeholders to identify research challenges that will lead to operational opportunities for the UAS community.  You will discover how UAS are catalysts for autonomy, robotics, and machine intelligence, and are changing the nature of civil and military aviation.
 

The foundation of aerospace systems is dependent on reliable autonomous systems—from the Sperry Corporation’s first autopilot and Draper‘s inertial navigation system, only the most rudimentary air or space travel would be possible without the myriad autonomy-of-flight technologies invented and implemented since the earliest days of flight.


For more than 80 years, members of AIAA—and its predecessor societies—have been involved in nearly every advancement in modern U.S. aerospace.  Their expertise and ingenuity has shaped everything from major space missions to the modernization of our aviation systems, to the many inventive uses of aerospace technology that make the world safer, more connected, more accessible, and more prosperous.