Airgility develops robotic unmanned aerial systems that can fly anywhere, using on-board robotic perception to navigate indoor and outdoor spaces without the need for GPS-based positioning. These capabilities allow Airgility’s aerial robotic solutions to conduct important missions, including search and rescue, protecting borders, delivering medical supplies to remote areas, and more.
The company’s platforms utilize artificial intelligence to perceive their surroundings, enabling them to make mission-specific autonomous decisions, and numerous autonomy and automation algorithms, allowing them to make navigation-specific autonomous decisions. Airgility designs, builds, and tests its own platforms and implements its own in-house algorithmic, navigation, and AI stack that run on-board the company’s products.
Airgility offers two main products:
The DS-3d ARGUS™ is a highly maneuverable and agile quadrotor designed to navigate confined indoor and complex outdoor environments leveraging on-board 3D autonomous path planning.
The CH-1 CHAOS™ is a heavy-lift platform purpose-built for commercial and DoD missions, having a payload capacity of up to 100 lbs. This system is highly versatile for mission-migration and payload flexibility via implementation of a central user-defined payload rack. The CHAOS has two variants, one for drone-style operations using GPS navigation and another for robotic-enabled operations using the DS-3d autonomy package for communications-dark and GPS-denied deployment. The CHAOS is under contract development for Counter-WMD missions and is currently available for sale as a heavy-lift drone.
Airgility was founded by UMD alumni Evandro Valente, co-founder and CTO, M.S. in aerospace engineering, ’14, and Pramod Raheja, co-founder and CEO, B.S. in aerospace engineering, ’91.
Programs: I-Corps, MIPS
