![]() ![]() Moreover, FlightWave designed its own batteries - powered, weighted, and positioned for the center of gravity for best performance, which results in “a purpose-built craft for serious commercial work”. FlightWave’s proprietary autopilot software allows the operator to chart an entire course before the mission - including take-off, navigation, steering, mission execution and return, without constant remote instruction after each task. Similar to Boeing’s V-22 Osprey but on a much smaller scale, FlightWave’s Edge Tricopter Hybrid Airplane features this very same technology.Īdditionally, the company had to develop a custom autopilot “that could utilize the huge fan in the rear for lift, while teaching the flight computer that it now had the ability to tilt its propellers forward and back for control”. “The ability to move without ‘upsetting’ the body of the aircraft allows for the successful use of many sensors and cameras once too sensitive for traditional drones.”įirst tested in a rudimentary form on early aircraft more than 100 years ago, Thrust Vector Control refers to the ability to control a flying aircraft without control surfaces like wings or tail fins with flaps and ailerons. With this technology, the drone can independently adjust the tilt angle of the front propellers, making it easier to fly the drone indoors, like warehouses and manufacturing plants, and outdoors where headwinds and lateral wind gusts require extra-strong performance. “We also saw the need for something that easily transported payloads to hard-to-get locations, and would be easy to put together and pack away.”įlightWave’s tilt-pod technology allows pilots to have more control over the Edge-130 Tri-Copter, providing a more stable flying experience. “One of our motivations for creating the Edge-130 Tri-Copter in the first place was, we wanted to build a drone that was faster, stronger, and that could fly longer,” Edmund Cronin, FlightWave's Chief Marketing Officer told Commercial UAV News. FlightWave says “it’s a highly inefficient way to fly”, and “falling while trying to move forward, back, left or right requires more energy to power up the opposing rotors to ‘catch’ the fall”. By design, quadcopters are constantly dipping and compensating for the dip to stabilize themselves in the air, over and over again. Leveraging tilt-pod, thrust vector control, and customized autopilot technologies, the Edge-130 Tri-Copter should solve the energy consumption of quadcopters. continues set to redefine drone range, endurance and speed capabilities with the launch of the Edge-130 Tri-Copter UAS that combines various systems to achieve greater mission endurance. Following up on the announcement of the tilt-pod earlier this year, FlightWave Aerospace Inc. ![]()
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