System Provides Evasion-Maneuver Options

Credit: Air Force Research Laboratory/NASA
The automatic ground collision avoidance system (Auto-GCAS) projects the aircraft’s trajectory over a digital terrain map and, by comparing known and predicted position to the terrain on the path ahead, determines if there is an impending collision. If it determines there is a possibility of a...

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