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MicroPilot serves UAV manufacturers who maintain high standards for both the hardware they integrate into their systems and the software that drives them. Our customers require products that are reliable, scalable and customizable. If you are looking for a partner with a solid reputation that supplies consistent products, services, and support, MicroPilot may be the solution for you.
Flight 756 D 2.22
A nice landing of a fixed wing UAV on a beautiful day at our UAV test site.
Corporate Video
An overview of MicroPilot.
Production Tour
A tour of MicroPilot’s production facilities featuring lots of cool equipment (cool if you’re a bit odd like us).
MicroPilot trueHWIL
An introduction to simulation as it applies to drones, including Software in the Loop (SWIL) simulation, quasi Hardware in the Loop (qHWIL) and explaining the advantages of MicroPilot’s patented true Hardware in the Loop (trueHWIL) simulator.
MicroPilot's Flight Test Area
When you work at MicroPilot, every day is flyday.
20 years ago, we were tired of loading up a van to go to a flying field to test our autopilots. It wasted a lot of time and, invariably, when something went wrong, we had neither the part nor the person to fix the problem. So we bought a building surrounded by farms and established our own drone and UAV flight test area. One of the first in the industry, and we are still the only UAV autopilot company with its own flight test area right outside our office.
Spin Practice Flight
When you’re a safety pilot, you need to practice spin recovery. A little thread and you can really see what happens during a spin and how it differs from a spiral dive.
Smooth landing
Landing a fixed-wing UAV isn’t simple. We break down everything that goes on when you land a fixed-wing drone.
Anechoic Chamber
A time-lapse video showing the construction of our anechoic chamber. An anechoic chamber isolates the interior from RF radiation and keeps it within the chamber.
Decrabbing
On final, a fixed-wing UAV crabs into the wind. When landing in a crosswind, the UAV’s wheels are not aligned with the runway. A touchdown with misaligned wheels results in a crash. The solution is to execute a maneuver to decrab the UAV just before touchdown.
A transitioning VTOL
A video of a wintery autonomous flight by a transitioning drone. Includes takeoff, transition from hovering to forward flight, flying to waypoints, transition back to hovering and then landing.
Micropilot Calibration Chamber 3
MicroPilot’s IMU calibration chamber from the inside.
Systems for UAVs have to work every time
Landing a fixed-wing UAV is tricky, but when you get it right, it’s something to see. This video includes a bunch of landings.
MicroPilot's Anniversary
Happy birthday to us! Another year of making autopilots for drones and UAVs. Another year of doing what we love best.
Triple Redundant Autopilot Switch
We work hard to synchronize the three autopilots in our triple-redundant system. This includes synchronizing the feedback loops so there are no sudden control jumps when you change autopilots. This video shows how smooth the switch between one autopilot and another can be.
Environmental Stress Screen HD
Manufacturing electronics is tricky. Occasionally, a solder joint will be mechanically weak but still conduct electricity. These faults are hard to find, as the autopilot appears to be working and passes all test software. Environmental Stress Screen is the key to finding these latent failures.
DO-178C requires discipline and hard work
DO-178C is a difficult process. This video provides a very brief overview of the process involved in developing software to the DO-178C standard.
MicroPilot's 28th anniversary
Another happy birthday to us! Over 2000 drone projects since 1994.
Our new HELI3 autopilot is here!
Developing our HELI3 autopilot was a lot of work. It’s worth celebrating its successful release.
Partition protection
If one line of code is safety critical, then every line of code must be certified to the level required by that one line of safety-critical code. An ARINC 663 partitioning operating system protects safety-critical code from other code, minimizing the amount of code that needs certification. MicroPilot’s HELI3 autopilot uses an ARINC 663 partitioned operating system. Partitioning code is not easy, nor is it cheap. It’s just one more way MicroPilot strives to deliver the most reliable autopilots in the industry.
Calibrating sensors is key to maximizing their performance
All sensors are a bit different and measure what you want to measure, and temperature. The solution to both of these problems is calibration. MicroPilot calibrates all of its autopilots’ sensors and, at the same time, tests every autopilot at each calibration temperature.
