Current times have provided us with great advances, new approaches and, above all, a new vision of the ancient world’s problems. Nonetheless, much of the most ancient and darkest problems in Africa still remain dormant.
Last Friday the 13th of November, Embention got the pleasure to participate in the Iberoamerican Drone Conference 2020 through its sales manager Javier Espuch, aerospace engineer and specialist in guidance autopilot systems for eVTOL platforms.
When thinking about the development of an aeronautical product for manned aviation or UAVs, there are many factors to take into account. The software of the product, its development time, certification, support, robustness, determinism or updates are factors to take into account and even more in the aeronautics market.
Nowadays efficiency and effectiveness have become one of the most desired goals in any engineering activity. It is essential to use the available programs, resources, focusing only on what is truly important and discarding the rest. The control architecture of a UAV does not escape to this premise.
In the last years, many different initiatives have been born in the field of the design and production of UAVs. Unfortunately many of them have not matured into a product that the market had recognised as innovative and necessary. For that reason, these UAV projects have failed and finally have disappeared.
eVTOL industry is rising and we are rapidly discovering a wide variety of new eVTOL aircraft designs that will be operative very soon performing manned flights flying over traffic jams and over the cities.
GNSS positioning (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) plays a key role in today’s transportation industry, including UAV technology (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).
Having means for a good situational awareness is a key factor to ensure the safe integration of an unmanned aircraft in a congested airspace, either in flights with long range RF communications, or in those ones beyond line of sight and/or at night.
