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The Spanish company based in Spain provides more than 15 years’ experience in drones and professional components for autonomous vehicles. The SME has developed its own autopilot and related components and nowadays this company is exporting its products and services to more than 70 countries.

As the drone market is getting more familiar for many applications, this autopilot system has become a perfect solution for different drone applications like mapping and military activities, surveillance, agriculture tasks (spraying crops, surveillance), public transportation, delivery or research applications.

The autopilot system developed by the company is designed to turn into autonomous any kind of manned or unmanned vehicles such as multirotors, helicopters, fixed wings, all kinds of VTOLs configurations or blimps. It can also be applied to ground vehicles, surface vehicles and others for all kind of applications. All the components are designed and manufactured following the strictest safety. They are also compliant with the declaration of design and performance.

The autopilot can be easily configured to manage all kinds of manned or unmanned vehicles. It allows the user to modify almost all the parameters and configurations to adapt the system to his needs without modifying the source code of the autopilot. This technology can be offered together with a documentation data pack available for remotely piloted aircrafts systems (RPAS), UAVs, drone certification and valid also for the system safety assessment (SSA).

This autopilot developed by the Spanish SME is the core of the first 80Kg drone issued with a civil airworthiness certificate in Europe. These professional autopilot systems have been integrated in all kinds of vehicles all around the world for both military and civil applications:

● Surveillance
● Urban Air Mobility
● Research
● Mapping
● Security
● Agriculture
● Delivery

This technology can be offered with onsite advanced engineering services in order to help the partner with the integration of the autopilot system on his platform, and train his staff on how to operate and control the drone with the autopilot.

Beside the autopilot, additional components offered by the Spanish SME are:

● Motor Controllers
● Long and short range communications
● Control Station Equipment
● Gimbals
● Software to control and operate the drone.

The Spanish company is offering these products and services under commercial agreement with technical assistance to help drones manufacturers and related companies to get the best performance on their projects (from the autopilot system point of view), without losing time trying to integrate hobby grade and open source components. This technology can be differential for government projects, private companies defense projects and for any other entities that are dedicated to the manufacture of urban air mobility drones and UAVs.

Advantages & innovations

The main features that can improve the performance of the partner’s drones are: ● Highly configurable: the system is fully configurable; even the user interface layout can be user defined. ● Custom routines: User selectable automatic actions, activated on system event or periodically ● Communications: Embedded line of sight radio & 4G communications and compatibility with satcom modules. ● Safety: Redundancy and sense and avoid based on radar, LIDAR or transponder. ● Performance: Dual global navigation system satellite and inertial measurement unit (GNSS & IMU) including real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning and curve-based navigation. ● Fully Automatic: Define events (speed, altitude, waypoint…) to trigger automatic actions (go home, payload activation…). The benefits that the system can offer to a drone: ● High grade of reliability. ● Safety in the transport operations. ● Accuracy in the military and delivery missions. ● Can be easily configured in all kinds of drones. ● Flexible for all types of applications and missions. ● Compatibility with all kinds of communications. ● Free ticket support. ● Certified system. ● Compatible with LIDAR sensors, gimbals, external radios. ● Can be used for research and investigations. The main values of the manufacturer of this system are: ● Strict validation and verification processes that ensure high quality products. ● Continuous innovation and research and development policies to maintain the products as the state of the art. ● Safety assurance according to international standards.

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

The Spanish private company is interested in finding reliable partners under commercial agreements with technical assistance. The partners will get technical assistance on how to integrate these autopilot systems in their platforms / vehicles in order to have the desired performance in their projects. The partner can be a manufacturer of military or civil drones, including any kind of transport or delivery industry.