GeoInspect Introduces the Procyon 800E helicopter to the European Market

Combining vertical takeoff capability with fast, long-range flight, and high wind tolerance in a cost-effective package. Equipped with the most full-featured, high performance and reliable open-source flight control system available.

DESIGN FEATURES

Mechanical Simplicity

Procyon was designed with mechanical simplicity as a core tenet. One of the reasons for the popularity of multirotor drones, is their mechanical simplicity, which makes maintenance and repairs easy. It has a minimum of moving parts. Not only does this make it more reliable and easy to maintain, but it is also more compact and light-weight.

Flexible Payload

One other benefit of the compactness of the powertrain unit, is that it results in very flexible payload and battery areas. While Procyon is presented here with one payload/battery arrangement, a simple lightweight mount for a Sony QX1 camera for mapping, this is just one example of a system configuration. Many more options are possible. GeoInspect can work with customers to outfit the system to fly many different payloads. Camera gimbals, LiDAR, Cargo, etc. all are possible.

Independent Tail Rotor Motor

Another design idea which Procyon borrows from multi-rotors, is the usage of individual motors per rotor, instead of using a drive-line between the main and tail rotors. This is the obvious solution for electric helicopters, as it eliminates the complicated and often unreliable drive-line to the tail rotor. No more problems with gear mesh, or belt tension due to temperature changes. Furthermore, it allows the tail boom to be mounted at a 5° angle relative the main rotor, decreasing drag during forward flight.

Single-stage Main Rotor Belt Drive

The main rotor is powered via a single stage belt-drive to the main motor. Belt drives are more durable and reliable than dry-run gears used by many other small and medium UAV helicopters. It is also much quieter. In fact, combined with the optimized rotor RPM, the Procyon makes far less noise than comparable multirotors. This makes it ideal for noise-sensitive operations such as surveillance.

3D Printed Body

For the Procyon 800E a technology is developed that allows the use of 3D printed plastic parts for the body, as well as light-duty structural parts. The 3D Printed body is not streamlined, but this is not important at the speeds typically flown by helicopter drones. The plastic body is cost-effective, light weight, and more durable than fiberglass bodies. It is also modular which make servicing and repairs easy, and finally makes the body easy to adapt as required by the end-user. Need to add a feature? It’s easy to add it in CAD, and re-print the body piece, and it will bolt right up.

Ardupilot Inside

Procyon is controlled by Ardupilot software, which is the most advanced, full-featured and reliable autopilot software available. The helicopter software is 90% the same as the multirotor software, meaning that helicopters benefit from all the same functionality developed for other drones. An additional benefit is that this allows an organization to combine helicopter drones in their fleet, with minimal extra training if they are already familiar with Ardupilot on other vehicle types. Diversity in equipment allows specializing different vehicle systems for different roles.

DIMENSIONS
Rotor Diameter: 1780mm
Length: 1440mm
Height: 420mm
Width:440mm
Empty Weight: 7.1kg
Operational Weight:12.4kg
Maximum Weight: 15kg
Payload Weight: 1-5kg

PERFORMANCE
Hover Endurance: 40 minutes
Cruise Endurance: 50 minutes

Hover Wind Toleranc: 60 km/h
Cruise Speed: 50 km/h
Maximum Speed: 90 km/h
VNE Airspeed: 120 km/h

Minimum Temperature: -10C

Maximum Temperature: +40C
Telemetry Range: 20 km

GeoInspect at the Digital Construction Summit Dublin, March 7th 2018, Croke Park

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GeoInspect demonstrated LiDAR at the Dublin Drone Expo 2017

The sub 5cm accurate LiDAR Point Cloud flown at the demo day on June 1st.

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Whether you need detailed information on stockpile volumes, mining sites, archaeology sites, natural resources or construction sites, our team is experienced and fully equipped to provide professional and reliable aerial data. With the use of drones we carry out such mapping tasks infinitely more efficient than traditional methods can ever achieve. From that imagery we create accurate and timely mosaics and models, ready to implement and use in any GIS project.

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LiDAR

Sales and Support for YellowScan’s LiDAR sensor

Over the last decade, LiDAR technology has proven its efficiency with market needs steadily increasing. However, LiDAR systems are heavy (typically 20 to 100 kg) and currently operate fromutility plane or helicopter. Due to high aircraft operation costs, these kind of sensors are not attractive for small-area surveying (<100ha).

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are also a booming sector. In particular, very high resolution aerial imagery from professional drones is a fast emerging market.

GeoInspect have signed a resellers agreement with YelowScan,a French manufacturer of UAV LiDAR solutions, to cover the Netherlands and Ireland aimed at promoting, selling and supporting the YellowScan Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) laser-based remote sensing technology.

In order to demonstrate the system’s capabilities, GeoInspect will start to organize spring demo days in
both countries.

GeoInspect is also your partner to fly and post process your LiDAR projects

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles open up a world of opportunities for a multitude of businesses, the possibilities seem endless. Experienced and reliable partners to help you discover and develop these business opportunities are scarce, though. With years of experience in GIS, aerial mapping and inspection, ICT, data capturing and photography, GeoInspect brings a fresh and highly professional approach to the table.

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