Odys Aviation and Motion Applied Announce Engineering Collaboration to Deliver Flight-Ready Hybrid-Electric Propulsion

Odys Avi­a­tion has announced a strate­gic engi­neer­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion with Motion Applied (MA), to advance a next-gen­er­a­tion hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion archi­tec­ture for advanced flight appli­ca­tions.

Under the terms of the part­ner­ship, Motion Applied’s proven sil­i­con car­bide (SiC) invert­er plat­form, the AMPEX MCU-600, will be inte­grat­ed with Odys’ fam­i­ly of high-speed gen­er­a­tor units to form a cer­ti­fi­able, high-per­for­mance hybrid propul­sion sys­tem for use in the company’s Laila and Alta air­craft.

At the core of the AMPEX MCU-600 sys­tem is MA’s embed­ded soft­ware stack for hybrid sys­tems coor­di­na­tion and avi­a­tion-lev­el redun­dan­cy man­age­ment.

Inte­grat­ed direct­ly with the Odys hybrid con­troller, the archi­tec­ture enables a tight­ly cou­pled turbine–generator–inverter closed-loop con­trol sys­tem opti­mized for dynam­ic flight oper­a­tions and capa­ble of simul­ta­ne­ous­ly sup­port­ing mul­ti-wind­ing fault iso­la­tion, grace­ful degra­da­tion, and con­tin­ued oper­a­tion under sin­gle-path fail­ures.

This inte­grat­ed approach ensures the propul­sion sys­tem can main­tain con­trolled oper­a­tion even under fault con­di­tions, an essen­tial require­ment for hybrid-elec­tric air­craft oper­at­ing in real-world envi­ron­ments.

James Dor­ris, CEO of Odys Avi­a­tion, said: “At Odys, we believe hybrid propul­sion must be archi­tect­ed from the ground up as a uni­fied sys­tem, not assem­bled from loose­ly con­nect­ed com­po­nents.

“Motion Applied brings a proven SiC invert­er plat­form and embed­ded con­trol stack that inte­grates seam­less­ly with our hybrid con­troller. Togeth­er, we are accel­er­at­ing the path to a cer­ti­fi­able, resilient propul­sion sys­tem as we move toward first air­craft deliv­er­ies.”

Addi­tion­al­ly, the AMPEX MCU-600 is ful­ly com­pat­i­ble with Odys’ high-speed gen­er­a­tors, lever­ag­ing a pro­duc­tion-proven invert­er plat­form to de-risk devel­op­ment and accel­er­ate time to a cer­ti­fi­able inte­grat­ed motor-gen­er­a­tor unit. By build­ing on an estab­lished hard­ware and soft­ware base, the teams will reduce inte­gra­tion uncer­tain­ty while pre­serv­ing per­for­mance head­room for future air­craft vari­ants.

Samir Maha, CEO of Motion Applied, added: “Hybrid-elec­tric avi­a­tion will only suc­ceed if every ele­ment of the propul­sion sys­tem is devel­oped togeth­er with absolute clar­i­ty of pur­pose. Our part­ner­ship with Odys Avi­a­tion reflects that mind­set.

“By com­bin­ing our invert­er plat­form with their advanced gen­er­a­tor tech­nol­o­gy, we are build­ing the foun­da­tion for flight-ready hybrid propul­sion that rais­es the bar for per­for­mance and safe­ty across the indus­try.”

Beyond elec­tri­cal per­for­mance, the AMPEX plat­form offers defined mechan­i­cal pack­ag­ing and ther­mal inter­faces that sup­port com­pact sys­tem inte­gra­tion. Clear cool­ing bound­aries and pre­dictable ther­mal per­for­mance reduce inte­gra­tion risk, stream­line air­craft-lev­el pack­ag­ing, and min­i­mize down­stream sur­pris­es dur­ing sys­tem val­i­da­tion and flight test­ing.

As Odys advances toward ini­tial air­craft deliv­er­ies this year, work­ing with estab­lished part­ners com­mit­ted to joint engi­neer­ing devel­op­ment has become cen­tral to the company’s exe­cu­tion strat­e­gy.

This lat­est col­lab­o­ra­tion reflects a shared com­mit­ment to joint devel­op­ment, align­ing elec­tri­cal, mechan­i­cal, and embed­ded soft­ware sys­tems from the out­set to accel­er­ate the path to a flight-wor­thy, inte­grat­ed solu­tion.