This survey drone takes safety seriously
New Zealand-based drone manufacturer Altus Intelligence wants to make sure its US$39,000 survey drones don't end up as rubble.
Most of Altus' customers use its flagship drone, the Long Range Extreme Weather (LRX), for construction and engineering surveying/mapping and expect a rugged, dependable vehicle to get the job done. That's where the LRX's three separate fail-safe systems come in.
The first is a triple auto pilot design, meaning that if anything goes wrong with one of the GPS streams, the other two will take over. The LRX is also armed with eight staggered propellers. Each is controlled by a separate motor, ensuring that the drone will remain in flight even if one fails. These type of redundancy features are something that Intel made a big deal about when the company revealed its Falcon 8+ commercial drone back in October.
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