Application

Logistics and payload delivery

Moving stores to positions and around depots without spending people on the journey.

The problem

Two problems that look different are the same problem. Inside a depot, trained people spend their day moving boxes between fixed points. Outside it, resupplying a forward position costs a party half a day each way on ground that is exposed. Both are journeys that do not need a person to make them.

How it runs

A typical deployment

01
Inside the depot, on the map
The rover is driven round once to build a map; afterwards a destination is a name and the vehicle plans its own route.
02
Keep it out of where it should not be
Stairs, offices and loading doors are painted onto a keep-out layer that the planner treats as solid.
03
Out to the position, by air
The heavy-lift aircraft carries the load on a powered hook, flies the planned route and either lowers it in the hover or releases on a computed solution.
04
Train the release first
The operator has already been scored on that release in the trainer, against the same ballistics and the weather of the actual site.
05
Everything logged
Both vehicles report what they carried, where they put it and when, into the same picture.