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AR5 UAV report (2021,PDF): A single bit error switched off the engines

2 pointsby chrisbucover 1 year ago

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chrisbucover 1 year ago
Saw a Tekever AR5 [1] fixed wing UAV on flightradar [2], and that led me to a Serious Incident report where both engines switched off as it was preparing to land. Fortunately an external pilot had line of sight and was able to land the UAV.<p>It seems that commands are sent as 11 bit values, 50 per second, and the command to send the &quot;Ignition Off&quot; value is any value over a set threshold.<p>From the doc: &quot;A such, a single bit error would be sufficient to modify the &#x27;Ignition ON&#x27; signal value so that it exceeded the &#x27;Ignition OFF&#x27; threshold.&quot;<p>(This has now been fixed by the manufacturer so that there must be 10 consecutive Ignition OFF commands)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tekever.com&#x2F;models&#x2F;ar5&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tekever.com&#x2F;models&#x2F;ar5&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flightradar24.com&#x2F;GTEKG&#x2F;32088166" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flightradar24.com&#x2F;GTEKG&#x2F;32088166</a>