08 - Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
ON-DEMAND SMALL UAS ARCHITECTURE SELECTION AND RAPID MANUFACTURING USING A MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH
C. Justin¹, A. Ramamurthy¹, N. Beals², E. Spero², D. Mavris¹; ¹GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, United States ;²U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY, United States
The convergence of technologies enables new architectures of small UAS bridging capability gaps. Understanding relationships between requirements and architectures is paramount. A process using automated design and rapid manufacturing via additive manufacturing is developed. Decision makers better understand the capabilities of small UAS architectures and users get tailor-made UAS within 20 hours.