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Safran Wins New Contract for FURIOUS Programme

Innovative Land Robotics Development Project

Safran Electronics & Defense has won an ‘optional tranche’ contract from the DGA for France’s FURIOUS (FUturs systèmes Robotiques Innovants en tant qu’OUtilS) programme, a science and technology program that aims to develop innovative robotic systems for mounted and dismounted warfighters.

The announcement follows successful field trials of the FURIOUS robotic system, carried out by Safran in late 2021 at the French army’s urban combat training centre at Sissone – a key advance, culminating in the firm contract phase. During this phase, participants focused on the modular architecture concept (hardware and software), designed to ensure the autonomous operation of any ground crewed or unmanned platform.

Safran was able to deploy this architecture on three very different types of platforms included in the FURIOUS system. The optional tranche now announced aims to optimise this architecture, and make the autonomous functions developed more robust (tracking passage points, replaying trajectories, monitoring the leader, autonomous target homing, etc.) within more complex – even unstable – environments.

Safran Electronics & Defense builds on its skills and expertise to ensure the autonomy of both land platforms (robotics) and airborne platforms (drones): automated planning and control, navigation and geolocation, 3D environment perception based on semantic segmentation, artificial intelligence-based processing and critical embedded software. The company has proven its credibility through real-world projects such as FURIOUS in France, and its European counterpart, iMugs, financed by the European Defence Fund.

Critical building blocks for future programmes could be developed in the short term, based on the operational advantages of autonomous functions in a number of scenarios, the applicability of a judicious incremental approach and a clear convergence towards adaptable modular solutions. From this perspective, the launch of the planned Vulcain robotics unit by the French army, designed to formalise the army’s robotics needs by 2030, is a clear sign for the players involved of the viability of this approach.

Safran has over 70 years of expertise in all underlying technologies. HRG technology has proven its capabilities for demanding civil and military applications in all environments: land, air, sea and space.

 

 

The FURIOUS robot. (Safran/R Brives)

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06/21/2022

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