Moya Aero Awarded Grant “to Develop Portable Ground Control System for High-Capacity Drones”

Brazil-based Moya Aero has been award­ed a USD2 mil­lion grant by FINEP, a Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tion which pro­motes sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion, reports a press release. 

The fund­ing is to be used for devel­op­ing a portable ground con­trol sys­tem for high-capac­i­ty drones as part of a pro­gram enti­tled, “Eco­nom­ic Sub­sidy for Inno­va­tion in Con­tin­u­ous Flow — More Inno­va­tion Brazil: Urban Mobil­i­ty.”

Moya will col­lab­o­rate with the Fed­er­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Per­nam­bu­co (UPE). The con­trol sys­tem is to utilise arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) for Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) oper­a­tions. This inno­va­tion aims to rev­o­lu­tionise car­go trans­porta­tion.

Alexan­dre Zaramela, Moy­a’s CEO, com­ment­ed, “The new sys­tem will light­en the oper­a­tional bur­den on pilots through automa­tion and is designed to low­er pol­lu­tant emis­sions by facil­i­tat­ing the use of hybrid and elec­tric vehi­cles.”

He con­tin­ued, “Addi­tion­al­ly, it will opti­mise deliv­ery routes using AI, increas­ing effi­cien­cy and safe­ty in simul­ta­ne­ous drone oper­a­tions. These enhance­ments promise to make logis­tics more effec­tive, eco­nom­i­cal and sus­tain­able.”

Alexan­dre Zaramela

The release explains, “With autonomous man­age­ment and route opti­mi­sa­tion, a sin­gle oper­a­tor can man­age mul­ti­ple drones, improv­ing deliv­ery process­es and extend­ing access to remote areas.”

And goes on, “This advance­ment will enhance the deliv­ery of frac­tion­al car­go over medi­um dis­tances and ben­e­fit appli­ca­tions in envi­ron­men­tal mon­i­tor­ing, pub­lic safe­ty and defence.”

Over­all, this con­trol sys­tem offers a sig­nif­i­cant step towards a future where tech­nol­o­gy enhances the effi­cien­cy and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of car­go trans­porta­tion, while cre­at­ing new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties, offer­ing sig­nif­i­cant cost reduc­tion and car­bon emis­sions.

For more infor­ma­tion

moyaaero.com

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