Developing an aircraft is hard and requires people with a plethora of skills and experience. allocortech can elevate your team with our industry experience to move from understanding your project goals to delivering on them.
allocortech replaced a high cost motor controller, integrated a high power LED supply, added parking support, and re-specified a motor for higher power and lower cost. This saved a moderate amount of weight and resulted in significantly lower cost per unit. As part of this work, we also created a desktop acceptance test fixture that allows for rapid change-outs of the units to run them through a suite of tests and where the prop wash is mostly captured by the fixture itself, so it won’t fly off the table.
allocortech’s Taurus motor controller and Lohner battery management technologies combined into a single unit allowed this customer to boost their internal combustion engine’s output power during takeoff before transitioning to generating all the avionics power during flight. This in addition to the battery state of charge estimation, battery charging, cell balancing, and DC/DC power conversion all in a lighter more efficient package than what they had before.
allocortech accelerated the development of a new flexible architecture aircraft by providing a full service contract of our Clio communications platform, a whole host of software integrations with new sensors, radios, and flight managers, and built a functional hardware in the loop simulator for testing before flight.
Accelerate your time to market by leveraging allocortech’s existing frameworks, integrations, and staff to create new drivers, protocol handlers, state machines, and executives.
Increase flexibility by working closely with allocortech to specify new or repackaged; robust, fault tolerant, and environmentally qualified; compute, sensing, actuation, or other small electrical or electromechanical device.
Release your vehicle’s potential by utilizing allocortech’s experience in creating custom battery management, power conversion, power generation, and motor control devices.
Understand the tradeoffs in redundancy strategies and safety domain cutting by having design and review sessions with allocortech’s in house experts. We can then help develop requirements to identify hardware and software solutions.
Unlock good testing practices by consulting with allocortech about requirements and test case development, utilizing our software test tool chain, and having us create hardware test platforms.
Yes, absolutely! If allocortech’s existing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) offerings do not meet your requirements, we will work with you to determine the best path forward. We consider our intellectual property library and in-house knowledge to be one of our strongest assets. We generally estimate 8 to 12 weeks to develop new hardware, and two weeks to bring up the basic hardware abstraction layer.
Our products are designed around the most common communications protocols but we can accommodate customers’ specific needs as well. For prototype purposes, we can work with you to determine if there are in-harness or other adapter solutions to ensure your vehicle arrives on time and on budget. For production vehicles, we are happy to discuss creating specific variants of products, or selling the bare boards, for further integration and modification.
allocortech prides itself on having an open software development kit (SDK) that allows you to customize the software to your needs. Additionally, with appropriate NDAs in place, we can participate in system/vehicle integration allowing customers to leverage our software expertise for better on-time delivery. allocortech also has a large and growing selection of integrations available in our SDK that is available for licensing.
allocortech is happy to work with you to repackage any piece of electronics, ours or otherwise, to fit into your weight and size requirements. We also have experience in weatherizing solutions by repackaging and selecting environmental connectors.
allocortech offers both a work-for-hire arrangement, whereby you own the resulting IP except for our existing background IP (for which you would obtain a license); and a shared license model, whereby we can negotiate reduced costs for including new modules into our SDK.
As a small business with low overhead, allocortech’s development costs are already lower than many of our competitors. However, we are open to discussing the possibility of a shared license of any developed IP.
allocortech’s future roadmap includes certification to DO-160 and DO-178 standards. We design our products to align with validation and verification requirements in the mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Where possible, we select third party software that has some level of support for certification. allocortech is waiting for a pilot customer to inform the specific design assurance levels and other requirements before we commence on a formal certification program.
Yes! One of allocortech’s differentiators is that all of our platforms and source code are open for you to modify as needed. Our software license is fairly permissive in that we allow reuse of the SDK as long as it’s used on, or for support of, our products. One time purchase of our software is an option, with an annual fee required only if basic software maintenance is desired.
Lead Flights Control Engineer, Navier
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