PODCAST: Embention’s Javier Espuch on Building Certifiable Avionics for the Future of eVTOL Flight

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is now live! This week, we were delight­ed to be joined by Javier Espuch, Chief Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Offi­cer at Emben­tion.

Javier shares the company’s 18-year jour­ney, from its ear­ly focus on minia­turised drone flight-con­trol sys­tems to becom­ing a lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy provider for advanced air mobil­i­ty plat­forms.

Javier explains how Embention’s flag­ship Veronte Autopi­lot has evolved through strict adher­ence to avi­a­tion-grade stan­dards such as DO-178 and DO-254, giv­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers a cer­ti­fi­able, high­ly reli­able flight-con­trol solu­tion adapt­able to near­ly any air­craft con­fig­u­ra­tion.

He high­lights the system’s key dif­fer­en­tia­tors: minia­tur­i­sa­tion, flex­i­bil­i­ty, and a mod­el-based design envi­ron­ment that allows OEMs to cus­tomise con­trol strate­gies for unique air­frame archi­tec­tures, from coax­i­al heli­copters to tail-sit­ters and hybrid VTOLs.

The dis­cus­sion dives into the company’s work toward TSO cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, the chal­lenges of the still-emerg­ing reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work for autonomous sys­tems, and the impor­tance of achiev­ing a cer­ti­fi­able detect-and-avoid capa­bil­i­ty, one of the biggest remain­ing hur­dles for com­mer­cial eVTOL oper­a­tions.

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