New UAV-helicopter To Communicate Verbally

Posted on: Jun. 11th, 2004 || Source: aviationnow.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

BALTIMORE, Md. - To fit seamlessly into the U.S. Army's future command and control architecture, the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR) will accept verbal commands from operators and report back to them verbally as well, according to Program Manager Don Woodbury of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).



"All the interaction is verbal," Woodbury said during a presentation at the American Helicopter Society's (AHS) Vertical Flight Transformation Forum here June 10. "We talk to it, it talks to us."

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