Aerospace Systems

Servos

 

Robotics
Air Vehicles Industrial Actuators

 

Air Vehicles: UAV / UAS Control Systems Propulsion

 

 

 

Engineering Services

Acuity can develop and test prototypes, system concepts and components to specification in areas related to our products and experience. These include

-Acuity product modifications
-Custom servo and drive systems
-Control system design: EKF estimators, plant modeling, MIMO and optimal control architectures.

-Subscale and full scale prototype vehicles: Rapid early design/build/test cycles
-UAV/UAS flight test. Licensed pilots.

Aerodynamics and Propulsion

Acuity designs and tests advanced vehicles, propulsion, and control systems. Past and current development encompasses

  • NASA Overflow-D CFD software installed on Acuity servers for steady state as well as unsteady and axially symmetric flow analysis.
  • Classical and vortex lattice aerodynamic analysis tools.
  • Flying wing and hovering aircraft design and flight testing.
  • Ducted fans with high disk loading.
  • Pump-fed hydrogen peroxide / methanol bipropellant rocket engines to 800 lbf.
  • VTOL cycloidal propulsion drive.

 

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