Aerospace Systems

Servos

Laser Imaging

 

Robotics
Air Vehicles Industrial Actuators

 

Air Vehicles: UAV / UAS Control Systems Propulsion

Mapping Profiling Navigation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Air Vehicles

Aerodynamics and Propulsion

Acuity designs and tests advanced vehicles, propulsion, and control systems. Past and current development encompasses

  • NASA Overflow-D CFD software installed on Acuity servers for steady state as well as unsteady and axially symmetric flow analysis.
  • Classical and vortex lattice aerodynamic analysis tools.
  • Flying wing and hovering aircraft design and flight testing.
  • Ducted fans with high disk loading.
  • Pump-fed hydrogen peroxide / methanol bipropellant rocket engines to 800 lbf.
  • VTOL cycloidal propulsion drive.

Flight Control

Acuity has developed flight contol algorithms with tightly coupled inertial, magnetic, GPS, and EO sensors. The open hardware architecture of our flight control computer uses an operating system that supports upgrading to FAA-accepted DO-178B traceability for operation in the national airspace.

Servo control through CAN bus with servo status and error reporting and rugged computer and servo hardware with extreme vibration and temperature specifications and testing provide reliability not found in many UAV flight control servos.

Our flight control computer performs navigation, payload support, and flight control that conventional autopilots cannot provide, such as managing variable geometry wings with large c.g. shifts during payload deployment, vertical takeoff and and landing, launch from a host aircraft, and GPS-denied navigation and control.

UAS Ground Station

Aircraft flight simulation, mapping software, and open source ground station software are being integrated to give Acuity’s unmanned air systems customers the most advanced portable ground station. USGS topographic data and imagery provides realistic simulation of vehicle performance and mission training at most locations worldwide.