How Urban Air Mobility is getting ready for passengers: the NTU Singapore case
Singapore’s NTU flew its eVTOL prototypes in Germany. See what it means for urban air mobility, and why safety starts in flight control.
Veronte Autopilot 1x, a high-reliability avionics system, not only permits fully autonomous professional operations with any UAV configuration, such as multirotors, helicopters, fixed-wings, projectiles, zeppelins, hybrid VTOL, etc., but also is able to control large UAVs with no restrictions in size.
Large UAVs, besides providing a wide range of functionalities and being able to develop operations in any professional field, as performed on common drones, go a step forward for their own characteristics. These aircraft can perform photogrammetry tasks, topology, firefighting, surveillance, border oversight, maritime search and rescue, agricultural work, messaging, etc. But large UAVs have greater versatility since their size provides superior autonomy up to tens of hours, they can operate at high altitudes up to thousands of feet, and they can have a link range of thousands of kilometers and transport payloads up to hundreds of kilos.
One of the large UAVs that Veronte Autopilot 1x can control is the Flyox I, manufactured by Singular Aircraft, a new concept of hydrofoil with remote guidance rated as one of the largest civilian drones currently available, customizable, and affordable.
Flyox I, high technology in the large UAV family
Singular Aircraft has produced one of the largest UAVs currently available, with the aim of providing a safe, reliable choice at a competitive price. It has a large space for payloads up to 1850 kg and a high autonomy of over 50 hours in observation mode, being developed under accurate models of quality and warranty.
There are four main versions of Flyox I:
- Surveillance: observation of areas and data collection through analysis and mapping; inspection of gas and oil pipelines or power lines. Rescue and precise location of missing and injured, on land or at sea.
- Firefighting: Reduction of up to 90% of costs in air assets; with a tank of 2050 liters of water or fire retardant, it can operate day and night, providing increased safety in the concept of prevention and intervention.
- Messaging and transportation: 15 times faster than ground transportation with 40% cost reduction, with the faculty to take land in various kinds of terrain and being able to shed load with a precision parachute.
- Agricultural work: ability to neutralize plagues or diseases in an hour through aerial spraying without endangering the health of the operator and without degrading neither the ground nor the plants.
