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UAVs and Drones

Leading technology companies are using Collimator to stay ahead of their competition and get the most out of their UAVs and drones. From designing and simulating high-performance controls systems, to developing AI software for perception and planning, Collimator accelerates innovation for their engineering teams.

Imagine how much more you can achieve when your tools don't stand in the way of your development

  • Use open source libraries incl. physics, mathematics and SysID models to accelerate early development
  • Test, learn and adapt during early design and focus engineering efforts on the most promising designs
  • Automatically generate high quality code directly from your model making it easier to debug and make changes
  • Use open source libraries incl. physics, mathematics and SysID models to accelerate early development
  • Test, learn and adapt during early design and focus engineering efforts on the most promising designs
  • Automatically generate high quality code directly from your model making it easier to debug and make changes
  • Engineers focus on engineering work, designing systems in a GUI environment and automatically generate embedded code
  • Run simulations and get insights into the system at least 20-100x faster using HPC
  • Always work on the latest and greatest meaning no wasted work and allow your team to continuously understand the impact their changes have on the overall system 
  • Collaborate in real-time with your team, customers and JDM, streamlining sprint planning, change management and code reviews
  • Derisk earlier by testing thousands of design concepts before starting implementation work
  • Conduct system level tests for verification and validation so you can gain confidence in your system’s performance in the field
  • Get improved traceability from requirements to hardware implementation and generate pass/fail reports to use as DO and ISO certification artifacts
  • Perform closed loop SIL, MIL, HIL, DIL tests and store TBs of simulation results directly in your database for analysis at a later date
FEATURES

Design your system using reusable function blocks

Integrate the design of your full system into one place - navigation, guidance, controls - to gain insight into end-to-end performance

Model your UAV in hours - not days - using our reusable function blocks, e.g., nDOFs, propellers, communications systems, power systems

Use our system design tools including automated tuning, model linearization, linear analysis, etc. to gain insights into your system faster

Simulate performance using HPC

Derisk earlier using rapid prototyping and testing thousands of design concepts before narrowing down your specifications and system architecture

Co-simulate your UAV with unreal engine simulators over millions of runs to test the performance of your changes as you iterate

Automatically generate code

Generate high quality embedded code directly from your model and have any system changes propagate down to the target hardware

Deploy your algorithms to service oriented architectures like ROS and dSpace with the click of a button

Reuse legacy code by integrating existing C code and test cases into your new design

Integrate AI in your design

Directly embed trained neural networks in your model to get end-to-end insight into your system's performance. AI and ML applications can vary from autonomous flying, range prediction, etc.

Seamless Verification and Validation (V&V)

Co-simulate your UAV with unreal engine simulators such as CARLA and AirSim over millions of system level tests so you can gain confidence in your system’s performance

Perform closed loop SIL, MIL, HIL, DIL tests and store TBs of simulation results directly in your database for analysis at a later date

Get traceability of requirements down to hardware implementation and generate pass/fail reports to use as certification artifacts

Use your design as a digital twin

Use your design as a digital twin to simulate and test updates to your embedded software, train your ML and optimize the performance of your UAV

Connect to your CI/CD pipeline, e.g., Github, Jenkins, to push updated firmware to your fleet, make continuous performance improvements

Collimator is by far the best modeling and simulation software that I have used. Using the block diagrams that Collimator provides has allowed me to simplify my code and shift the time I was spending writing convoluted scripts back to my research!
R&D Researcher, Control Systems
Collimator is head and shoulders above the rest. I’ve found modeling to be very easy and straightforward. I’ve also saved a bunch of time and money while running my simulations. The same simulations that would take hours to run on my local PC run in minutes.
Control Systems Engineer, Consumer Electronics
Collimator proved to be the best solution for me because of how easy it was to get data from our back end, use that to create synthetic data, and then move that data into my neural net for training.
Automation Engineer, Technology Startup
It is amazing to use Python, run on a web browser and collaborate on the cloud […] This is undoubtedly 10x better than what I've used before!
GNC Engineer, Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing

We power cutting edge solutions for companies at the forefront of innovation

Communications System

Optimized for the potential missions and thoroughly tested to understand signal propagation, path loss, noise and ensure top-notch performance

Navigation and Guidance

End to end system co-simulated with unreal engine simulators and results rendered in 2D and 3D to understand trajectory and response rates

Control System

Designed and simulated over millions of potential scenarios, tested with the hardware in the loop to ensure it meets system and functional requirements

Power System

Battery chemistry is selected to optimize based on size, weight and cost and ensures the battery packs provide the right power at the right time, without compromising safety

Discover our top solutions for Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Electrification and more

Unlock the full potential of your engineering team with powerful features

Design

Explore the vast number of possibilities, model to your desired complexity

Simulate

Move faster with speed and agility, get high fidelity insights earlier

Visualize

Analyze your results, increase confidence on your designs, iterate

Deploy

Automatically generate code and deploy code to your target hardware

Collaborate

Integrate your workflows and streamline
collaboration

One Platform

Many Capabilities

ANSI C Code
Generation

Automatically generate C code for your embedded system controller

CI / CD

Continuously build, test and deploy updates to embedded systems

Deploy AI and
ML

Import neural networks to deploy in your system design

Model Based
Development

Reduce risk using modeling, simulation and end-to-end traceability

Synthetic Data
Generation

Generate and export synthetic data to train neural networks

Verification and
Validation

Simplify data exploration and insights gathering through automated tests

Integrates seamlessly with your existing engineering tools

Redback Technologies reduces verification and validation time by 75%

Simon, a Principal Electronics engineer in the clean energy industry, used Collimator to design their next generation of solar and battery storage solutions. Using Collimator, he was able to save:

  • Reduce his verification and validation time by 75%
  • Create a design that was 3x easier to implement
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Grace saved 16h+ of unproductive time per eng per year

Grace, a Mechanical Engineer, set out to design a groundwater desalination plant that produced the maximum amount of freshwater for the least amount of energy consumed. Using Collimator, Grace was able to save:

  • 16 hours per year for each person in her team
  • Change her simulation run time from hours to minutes
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Nesa Innovation Labs increases engineering efficiency by 20%

Sanjay, a Control Systems engineer in the automotive industry, used Collimator to design MBD and ISO26262 compliant battery management systems. Using Collimator, he was able to save:

  • 20% est. engineering efficiency gained
  • $45k est. savings from moving to Collimator
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