Airbus UpNext Timeline

Events

• 2024-05-21 - Demonstration - Airbus UpNext starts Optimate automatic taxiing and pilot-assistance testing - Airbus UpNext started testing Optimate technologies for automatic taxiing and pilot assistance using an electric truck as the test platform. The three-year project combines automation, computer vision, data fusion and machine learning for future aircraft… - source: airbus.com
• 2023-11-08 - Demonstration - Airbus UpNext eXtra Performance Wing demonstrator makes first flight - Airbus UpNext’s eXtra Performance Wing demonstrator completed its first flight. The demonstrator is designed to test future wing technologies and improve aerodynamic performance. This is a lighter robotics/autonomy row but worth keeping for Airbus UpNext’s… - source: airbus.com
• 2023-03-28 - Capability - Airbus UpNext achieves autonomous guidance and control of drone from tanker aircraft - Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus UpNext demonstrated in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone from an A310 MRTT tanker aircraft. The Auto’Mate tests used DT-25 target drones as receiver aircraft and demonstrated autonomous relative navigation… - source: airbus.com
• 2023-01-12 - Demonstration - Airbus UpNext starts DragonFly autonomous pilot-assistance flight tests - Airbus UpNext started ground and in-flight testing of DragonFly pilot-assistance technologies on an A350-1000 test aircraft. The demonstrator covers automated emergency diversion in cruise, automatic landing and taxi assistance. - source: airbus.com