AUSA 24 – Tomahawk Ground Control Stations

Although all of AeroVironment’s uncrewed systems are open architecture and will accept control solutions from other vendors, AeroVironment purchased Tomahawk Robotics just over a year ago due to interest in their Ground Control Solutions.

The Tomahawk GCS is an AI-enhanced, open-architecture common control system providing multi-domain, multi-robotic command-and-control capabilities. Tomahawk’s Kinesis software and Kinesis SDKs enable rapid development, integration, and deployment of 3rd-party technology to the warfighter at the edge…

Seen above is the Grip S20, a rugged controller designed around the Samsung Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition smartphone. Grip S20 is military-hardened and provides an intuitive UI to simplify UxV control. It is run by their Kinesis software which offers unmanned systems control, TAK/ATAK integration to provide video rebroadcasting, COT messaging, and bi-directional syncing of POIs. Kinesis optimizes the vehicle pairing process, enables UxV formations and control, and a map engine that supports multiple sources via layers, DTED, and coordinates in both Lat Long and MGRS.

The controller can be paired with an edge processor like the MxC-Mini which is a Nett Warrior-compliant data link that seamlessly integrates with tactical UxVs. These edge processors ingest large amounts of data for high-speed, body-worn computation, reducing cognitive load, and fusing raw intelligence data for real-time decision-making.

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