GE Aviation and Auterion Team to Provide All-in-One Hardware and Software Platform for Commercial Drones
29 Abril 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Aviation experts demonstrate seamless
integration of ground, cloud and airborne components
Today, GE Aviation and Auterion announce the integration of the
Auterion Enterprise PX4 operating system on GE Aviation’s Unmanned
Aircraft System avionics platform. They show their commitment by
signing a teaming agreement to provide a comprehensive hardware and
software solution for drone manufacturers and operators seeking to
enable commercial drone operations at scale.
The teaming enables a full stack solution with airborne
autopilot and application computing hardware, flight management,
safety management and integration. GE Aviation is providing the
avionics hardware, application computing, flight management and
integration into airframes. Auterion is providing Enterprise PX4,
the operating system that runs on the vehicle, in the cloud and the
ground station.
The core architecture of the hardware and software platform has
been implemented with the objective of supporting developers
through global open software standards while maintaining an
independent and authoritative safety controller. The combination of
the two supports long-term flexibility and a high level of design
assurance to enable commercial drone operations beyond visual line
of sight and within complex airspace and obstacle environments.
Flight testing of the hardware and software platform took place
over the last three weeks at Reno-Stead airport in Reno, Nevada.
“In demonstrating a seamless integration of ground, cloud and
airborne components, we’ve reached another milestone in helping to
unlock the value in autonomous and UAS advanced operations,” said
Alan Caslavka, president of Avionics Systems for GE Aviation.
“Auterion’s open standards leadership and cooperative legacy with
the developer community is foundational to a scalable and
sustainable solution critical for commercial drones.”
“We are excited about the collaboration with GE Aviation that
allows us to offer our operating system on high reliability
hardware to meet future regulations,” said Kevin Sartori,
Co-Founder of Auterion. “With this collaboration, the combined
solution will significantly reduce barriers commercial cargo drones
face flying in manned airspace or inspection drones to flying in
urban areas.”
Demonstrated Performance
This collaboration combines proven prerequisites where GE
Aviation leverages their experience in avionics and unmanned
airborne systems whereas the Auterion team, around co-founder
Lorenz Meier, brings to the table more than a decade of experience
of software development for autonomous systems in the open source
community.
Auterion’s software platform provides core airborne software
infrastructure including flight peripherals and camera
integrations, data networking, precision navigation and compliance
with traffic management. Working closely with the open source
community, Auterion software on the vehicle is largely developed on
top of the leading open source robotics software projects, PX4 and
ROS 2.
The hardware and software platform is designed with commercial
vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and/or service
providers in mind. Stop by Auterion’s AUVSI Xponential booth #2009
in Chicago to see the platform in action. Pre-orders are being
taken at this time.
About Auterion
Auterion is a leading supplier of an open-source-based,
enterprise operating system for drones. Auterion’s mission is to
maximize interoperability and security, while future-proofing and
scaling drone operations for businesses. After Co-founder Lorenz
Meier created PX4, Pixhawk, MAVLink, and QGC (the most widely
adopted permissively licensed open source projects in the drone
industry), Auterion was founded to bring the best technology to the
drone industry by leveraging global industry standards. For more
information visit: www.auterion.com
About GE Aviation
GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE (NYSE: GE), is a
world-leading provider of jet and turboshaft engines, avionics,
electrical power systems and digital solutions for commercial,
military, business and general aviation aircraft. GE has a global
service network to support these offerings and is part of the
world's Digital Industrial Company with software-defined machines
and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. For
more information, visit us at http://www.ge.com/aviation.
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