Smart Battery Solutions & Battery Management Systems for Drones & Robotics

Aerotate is a specialist developer of smart battery solutions for drones and robotics, designed to surpass traditional technologies and unlock new heights of performance while prioritizing ease of use and integration. In addition to standard off-the-shelf products, we also provide custom design and engineering services tailored to your application’s unique power requirements.

Our solutions provide a number of advantages for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles) and unmanned systems:

• Enhanced Safety: Our smart batteries can detect a wide range of faults and provide timely warning to the pilot or operator.
• Real-time Diagnostics: By providing up-to-the-minute information on charge level, temperature, and remaining flight time, our batteries allow you to adjust on the fly to changing conditions.
• Intelligent Charging: Quick, safe, and efficient charging ensures minimal downtime and prolongs battery life by preventing overcharging, overheating, and short circuits.
• Sustainability: Our eco-friendly solutions optimize energy consumption, reduce waste and minimize the environmental impact of your drone operations.
• Seamless Cable-free Integration: Our smart batteries are designed to be effortlessly inserted and swapped out within seconds, with no cables or plugs.

aeroPAX6 Smart Battery

The aeroPAX6 is a high-performance smart battery that delivers reliable power for demanding drone and robotics applications, providing strong bursts of energy when you need them the most.

The battery management system constantly monitors vital parameters and can deliver this information via UAVCAN or I2C, and also outputs it to a convenient display on the front of the unit.

The system’s logging feature provides crucial long-term data that allows you to analyze and refine the performance of your systems, enabling better mission planning and more accurate flight time and range calculations. The battery can also be placed into a storage mode during extended periods of inactivity, preserving overall health and maximizing its longevity.

The aeroPAX6 battery is hot-swappable when used in parallel, ensuring that downtime is minimized. It is available in three capacity options: 20 Ah/444 Wh, 16 Ah/355 Wh, and 12 Ah/266 Wh.

More information: aeroPAX6 Smart Battery

aeroPAX6 Smart Charger

Our smart battery chargers provide effective, efficient and safe charging capabilities, communicating seamlessly with batteries via CANBus and constantly monitoring system temperature.

The integrated battery management system precisely balances individual cell voltages to optimize health and maximize lifespan, and utilizes a unique air-cooling mechanism.

Four different charging capacities are available to suit a wide range of requirements:

• 10 A – 450 W
• 25 A – 750 W
• 36 A – 1200 W
• 48 A – 1700 W

More information: aeroPAX6 Smart Charger

aeroPAX6 Carrier

Our easy-to-use battery carrier provides rapid integration of aeroPAX smart batteries into drones and robotic vehicles without the need for specialized mounts, connectors or wiring harnesses. The carrier PCB can be connected directly to the vehicle’s ESC (electronic speed controller), and also offers two I2C (JST GH) and two CAN ports, as well as a 5V/10W output for autopilots and other electronics.

Two versions of the carrier are available – one with protected outputs for parallel operation, and one without. The protected outputs ensure that active connectors are never exposed when only one battery is in the system, allowing for an empty and a full battery to be connected at the same time and enabling the empty battery to be hot-swapped.

More information: aeroPAX6 Carrier

Design & Engineering Services

We can develop custom battery management systems and drone power solutions, tailoring hardware, software and housing to your exact requirements. We are able to create battery packs with any cells on the market, including high-energy density Amprius cells, according to your unique needs.

In addition, we also offer a range of additional expert engineering services, including prototype development, CAD design, and electronics and embedded system design. 

To find out more about commissioning a bespoke battery solution for your drone or robotics project, please get in touch.