Ascend Engineering is a specialist software engineering consultancy serving the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) industry. UST is delighted to welcome Ascend on board as a supplier partner, and we will be highlighting their unique solutions and capabilities across our channels over the next 12 months.
We’ve just launched Ascend Engineering’s UST supplier profile, which has been written and built by our team in collaboration with the company. The Silver profile showcases their comprehensive suite of development services, which are ideal for government and commercial clients looking to take advantage of state-of-the-art drone technology and bring their operations to the next level.
Read on to find out more:
Ascend Engineering are experts in PX4 and ROS (Robotics Operating System), and can fine-tune their powerful capabilities to create customized autopilot software to suit your specific requirements for any UAV platform, including multirotor, fixed-wing and unmanned helicopter. The company can seamlessly integrate additional functionality such as collision avoidance, custom flight modes, and emergency procedures, and can also create custom MAVlink protocol messages for bespoke communications needs.
The company can integrate a wide variety of onboard processing hardware into your UAV airframe, including ModalAI’s VOXL 2, VOXL Flight and VOXL 2 Mini platforms, providing your aircraft with powerful edge computing capabilities and ensuring seamless operation with all onboard systems.
Bespoke onboard software can also be developed to handle any mission requirements that you desire, including sensor and payload data analysis, autonomous behaviours, redundant communications, and much more.
Utilizing the ModalAI VOXL2, VOXL2 Mini, and VOXL-Flight flight control hardware, Ascend can equip your drones with cutting-edge AI and machine learning capabilities for autonomous navigation, collision avoidance, image and video analysis and more. The company’s developers have extensive experience with all ModalAI hardware and software products, and worked closely with them to help create their SDKs (software development kit).
Ascend can integrate any sensor or payload you can think of into your drone platform, and create bespoke software solutions to ensure seamless functionality and any additional capabilities you need. They can also install a wide range of communications and data links, enabling reliable connectivity at any range from VLOS to BVLOS, and can set up and customize your ground control station (GCS) hardware and software with a variety of capabilities.
End-to-end testing services can also be provided for your UAV platform and subsystems in both the laboratory and the field, ensuring your aircraft’s success under real-world mission conditions. Ascend also has extensive experience with using the Gazebo platform to create and simulate UAV and environmental models, and to undertake software-in-the-loop (SITL) testing.
To find out more about Ascend Engineering and their software engineering services for UAVs, please visit their profile page:
https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/company/ascend-engineering/
