Strategic Elements expands autonomous vehicle technology into defence sector

10 SHARES Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Whatsapp Email PrintStrategic Elements (ASX: SOR) is expanding into the defence sector with its subsidiary Stealth Technologies’ autonomous vehicle and platform technologies. Research will involve integrating DST’s search algorithms into Stealth’s autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UAG) and unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) hardware and software platforms, and development of an initial software exemplar. In collaboration with US major Honeywell, Stealth has deployed an autonomous security vehicle for the Western Australian Department of Justice’s Eastern Kalgoorlie Regional Prison. Stealth is upgrading the autonomous security platform with a “sensor fusion stack” that comprises extra sensors including LiDAR, radar, GPS, sonar, thermal imaging and different camera types. “Stealth is building a flexible autonomous platform that we intend to deploy in sectors such as security, defence and mining to name a few,” Strategic managing director Charles Murphy said.