UAV Navigation is a privately-owned company that has specialized in the design of guidance, navigation and control solutions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) since 2004.
UAV Navigation’s flight control solutions are used by a variety Tier 1 aerospace manufacturers in a wide range of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) – aka Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or ‘drones’. These include high-performance tactical unmanned planes, aerial targets, mini-UAVs and helicopters.
The Company’s autopilots carry out advanced functions:
– Multiple target drones sea-skimming at 700 km/h
– Fully automatic net landing of a drone onto a moving vessel at sea
– Conversion of a twin prop manned aircraft or turbine helicopter into a drone
The cornerstone of the Company’s success is a comprehensive, in-house capability to develop Attitude & Heading Reference Systems (AHRS), flight control algorithms and to fuse the data provided by multiple sensors (GPS, airspeed, magnetometers, gyroscopes, accelerometers etc). The autopilots are characterized by their reliability and robustness, with over 50,000 flight hours in all kinds of weather and on all kinds of platform.
