Unmanned Vehicles

Unmanned vehicles place demanding requirements on their underlying middleware. Proven in hundreds of mission-critical applications, RTI’s infrastructure technology addresses the key challenges faced by unmanned system developers.

• High-performance real-time messaging for distributed control systems and sensor data distribution
• Developing and deploying reliable, highly available, fault tolerant, dynamic and zero-administration applications
• Operating over wireless links that can be unreliable, intermittent, high latency and low bandwidth
• Reliably recording large volumes of high-throughput, real-time surveillance data for post-mission analysis
• Support for heterogeneous environments including embedded and real-time operating systems
• Compliance with industry standards such as DDS, JAUS and STANAG 4586

Customer Profiles

Learn more about how customers are taking advantage of RTI’s technology and expertise to develop and deploy unmanned air, ground and undersea vehicles.

General Atomics

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) selected RTI for real-time data exchange and processing for the advanced cockpit ground control stations (GCSs) for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) such as the military Predator drones.

Insitu Inc.

Insitu Inc. is using RTI's technology in its next generation of unmanned air vehicles, including the ScanEagle and newer platforms.

Schilling Robotics

Alstom Schilling Robotics is the world leader in telerobotic technology. Their Quest ROV is an underwater, unmanned vehicle used for servicing, installation, exploration, salvage, and recovery operations. It includes an advanced network design that reduces the complexity of the cabling between the ROV and its support ship. Read why Schilling selected RTI Data Distribution Service to provide the ROV-to-ship communications.

Bluefin Robotics

Bluefin Robotics chooses RTI Data Distribution Service selected RTI for its innovative Bluefin 9 unmanned underwater vehicle.

DARPA Grand Challenge

Flying Fox, built by Autonomous Vehicle Systems, relied on RTI for synchronized, distributed sensor integration for their unmanned autonomous vehicle in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Products Agency) Grand Challenge race.

Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech's UAV Research Facility took RTI off the shelf and into the air during the 2000 International Aerial Robotics Competition.