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UAV Manufacturer Applications

     If your company is manufacturing a UAV or perhaps even a fixed wing platform, then SPOT is just the tool to evaluate sensors that you will no doubt be selecting to incorporate or have the ability to be incorporated into the system. Using SPOT will assist you in requirements analysis. Multiple aircraft (VTOL ducted-fan or fixed-wing), each with one or more sensors can be flown manually or directed to follow prescribed flight paths over an urban cityscape with both stationary and moving targets. Better performance and lower costs result if the right match of camera specification and aircraft design is found before committing to the detailed design of either. By integrating all significant design variables in a simple desktop tool, SPOT helps platform designers make the best choices for variables such as: 

  • Sensor resolution, field of view, and frame rate to optimize coverage area and pixels on target.
     
  • Airframe, power requirements, and payload capacity to identify the optimal aerial platform for a sensor.
     
  • Mission profile, number of vehicles and sensors per vehicle to identify an optimal surveillance strategy.
     Flight tests are expensive and never conducted under identical conditions so it may be hard to obtain comparable results for competing platforms from different vendors.  SPOT provides complete and total control over weather conditions. Program managers tasked with selecting a single best solution from competing surveillance platforms can use SPOT to provide virtual test flight data under identical conditions for a variety of missions. The ability to load vehicle models (flight dynamics models and airframe geometry) into SPOT allows conceptual designers gain insight into how a concept vehicle will perform. By integrating SPOT into AVID's industry-leading conceptual design software (AVID OAV and AVID ACS), designers now have a powerful method for visualizing their vehicles behavior early in the design process.

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