UAV Factory Launches New Portable Universal Ground Control Station
UAV Factory has announced its second generation of portable ground control station for unmanned aircraft.
UAV Factory's off-the-shelf portable Ground Control Station (GCS) is a flexible and universal solution for controlling unmanned vehicles and payloads. By using a unique, modular electronics compartment (MEC) which is reconfigurable by the user, application specific hardware can be quickly installed.
This flexibility allows the GCS to be configured to control unmanned aircraft (UAS), ground robots, bomb disposal robots, remotely operated vehicles (ROV) and other robotic devices.
The company’s Chief Technology Officer, Konstantins Popiks, told UAS Vision: “Our target is to replace the current portable ground control stations that are used by UAS companies at the moment. Most of the current GCSs are made in-house and are crude, simple solutions that are assembled from components available in hardware stores stuffed into rugged case. Even well know industry players use this crude approach and our task is to take this particular area in unmanned industry to a new level.”
“Our latest GCS is industrial-grade, validated GCS that has a lot of features (battery hot swapping, fail safes, integrated dock station etc). We will also offer the price which was never seen before for this kind of product – prices for our GCS will start at €5,200 ( sold without Panasonic Toughbook). This price should make the in-house developed ground stations impractical.”
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Source: Press Release
