Commercial UAV Helicopter Drones
We are very excited to be participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year, in combination with the Ardupilot Organization, and of course Google! GSoC is a program intended to get University students from around the world involved with open source projects, which helps them grow their coding experience, and hopefully become lifelong… Read More
We are pleased to announce that Robert Lefebvre has been asked to present a class again at the Interdrone conference in Las Vegas, September 6-8 2017. This year’s topic will be UAV Systems Comparison - Planes, Frames and Autopilots. This session will compare and contrast the large variety of different aircraft types. It will cover… Read More
I am pleased to announce that NOVAerial Robotics Inc. has entered acquisition discussions with Global UAV Technologies Ltd, a Canadian-based UAV consortium that is rapidly expanding with a series of well-planned acquisitions. Their goal is to assemble a number of companies to service the high-end of the commercial UAV industry. I would like to assure… Read More
One of NOVAerial’s latest customers, GeoInspect Ltd, is presenting their recently delivered Procyon 800E Helicopter UAV system at the Drone & Tech Expo in Ireland this weekend. GeoInspect will be installing a YellowScan Surveyor Lidar scanning package onto the UAV Helicopter for aerial surveying work. Just another example of the applications to which drone helicopters… Read More
Recently, NOVAerial Robotics Inc. has been working on operational development of airborne magnetometer surveying with several customers. This technique is typically used by the mining industry to search for magnetic anomalies in the ground which could indicate the location of valuable mineral deposits. Historically, this has been done either with surveyors walking with a hand-held… Read More
Now that winter has finally arrived in Canada, NOVAerial is conducting cold weather testing of the Procyon 800E helicopter drone system. And as always, we conduct flight testing in any kind of wind condition. As long as there is no precipitation, the Procyon is ready to do it’s job. And, we shot a video to… Read More
NOVAerial Robotics is pleased to announce that the Procyon 800E drone helicopter has finished it’s prototype and testing phases and is beginning limited production and delivery to commercial companies worldwide. The first customer to place an order will be using it to carry a sling-load magnetometer weighing 3.8kg. The UAV helicopter has demonstrated it’s ability to… Read More
NASA is now planning on using a UAV in addition to the Rover in order to explore Mars. The reasons are very simple, and parallel the desire to use UAV’s on earth. Having a camera in the air, instead of being stuck on the ground, allows for better perspective to see details of the terrain.… Read More
Robert Lefebvre is glad to be invited back to the InterDrone Conference in Las Vegas from September 7th to 9th. He is scheduled to present a workshop on Friday at 12:00. Introduction to Rotorcraft Aerodynamics This class will explain the complexities of multirotor and helicopter aerodynamics as it applies to UAV system development in… Read More
Not Necessarily Another common misconception about helicopters, is that they are mechanically complicated, hard to set up, and unreliable. Just as with the idea that they are hard to fly, this was true in the past, but things have changed. I will reuse this image of the Thunder Tiger Raptor 30, showing an old fashioned mechanical… Read More
