Focus Areas
Autonomy for Advanced Flight Systems works to enable autonomous navigation and terminal guidance through GPS-denied environments on Sandia’s renowned advanced flight systems. Sandia does research in the areas of perception, localization, path planning, and navigation, guidance and control (NG&C). Autonomy for Advanced Flight Systems supports missile and air defense by developing autonomous defeat systems, as well as autonomous adversary test-target systems.
Prior Work
- Development of strike capabilities designed to enable the effective targeting and use of weapons systems in GPS-denied environments through the application of sensing technology
- SAR and high-precision guidance and navigation
- Extensive capabilities in missile defense
Ongoing Research
- Real-time trajectory generation (RTTG), enabling on-the-fly changes to hypersonic trajectories
- Autonomous closed-loop navigation, guidance, and terminal-stage targeting capability for hypersonic strike
- Autonomy-enabling integrated SAR/navigation/guidance mode
- Interceptor concepts that leverage current LCMD nonlinear predictive guidance principles
- Development of autonomous defense capabilities