Custom Drones

UAV Swarm for Desert Flight

A fully equipped research drone for multi-UAV (swarm) missions in harsh environments

Application

Monitoring in Harsh Environments

Robots and specialized drones can perform unique tasks in various environments, each presenting its own challenges. When deploying UAVs in challenging harsh environments, such as forests or deserts, it is often necessary to modify or enhance the technology.

Contrary to indoor spaces or even outdoor settings, like parking lots or fields, wild forests and deserts can be challenging to navigate. Several methods relying on the underlying structure of an environment, such as level ground or distinct features for vision-based systems, tend to fail.

UAV Swarm TII

UAV swarm flying above desert terrain.

Solution

UAV Swarm from Fly4Future

Fly4Future designed a custom drone specifically for the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi (TII) to perform multi-UAV missions in harsh environments. The onboard sensors and open-source autonomy engine enabled the UAVs to perform several different tasks in the desert.

Simultaneously deploying a large number of UAVs in the desert required a crucial emphasis on creating a compact design. The team at TII tested their algorithms with a swarm as large as 20 UAVs flying in a compact group over the desert.

The Fly4Future UAV swarm has applications in several different areas:

  • Performing critical tasks, like search-and-rescue
  • Monitoring plant and animal life can be extremely challenging for humans in a harsh environment
  • Coverage of large areas with better accuracy
  • Assistance to human monitors in searches or long-term monitoring of an environment
  • Track and transform desert wildlife over time
UAV Swarm in desert

The Fly4Future UAV swarm monitoring vast desert area.

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Our Work

Research Projects

AeroSTREAM Summer School 2024

AeroSTREAM Summer School brought together a great team of students and academic researchers.

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Autonomous Drones for Lake and Pond Management

Autonomous multi-robot systems for water quality monitoring and object recognition in lake and pond management.

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Autonomous Drones for Port Inventory

A cost and time-efficient solution for port inspection and inventory utilizing autonomous drones for optimized operations.

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Autonomous Drone Taxi Concept in Urban Mobility

Unique autonomous drone solutions for safe and reliable urban air mobility based on the concept of an autonomous drone taxi.

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Autonomous Drones for Parcel Delivery

We offer full range of services in development of unique solutions for the parcel delivery by autonomous drones.

Development & Prototyping

Autonomous Drones for Heritage Inspection and 3D Mapping

Autonomous drones for inspection and 3D mapping of large historic interiors with precise navigation in GNSS denied environments.

Development & Prototyping

Autonomous Drones for Monitoring of Animals

We develop autonomous drones for monitoring of animals: herding livestock, wildlife management, and related ecological research.

Development & Prototyping

Drones for Inspection of Highway Tunnels and Bridges

Autonomous drones designed specifically for inspection in GNSS-denied environments of highway tunnels and bridges.

Development & Prototyping

Autonomous Drones for Plant Management in Greenhouses

We offer the development of autonomous drone solutions for plant management in the narrow space of greenhouses.

Development & Prototyping

Autonomous Drones for Search and Rescue Missions

Autonomous drones and UAV swarms designed to conduct successful search and rescue missions in hard-to-reach environments – forests, caves, mines, etc.

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What We Do

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Custom Drones

We custom-build ready-to-fly fully autonomous drones that can be adjusted for any application and industry.

Development and prototyping

Development & Prototyping

We design and develop advanced autonomous aerial systems to meet the particular needs of our individual clients.

Research projects

Research Projects

We participate in many projects in various fields financed by the EU and Czech Republic, as well as private research institutions.