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The Scout B1-100 UAV helicopter has been recognized as one of the leading autonomous helicopter systems (UAV) for various applications and has shown its outstanding capabilities in multiple countries and many projects such as high-accuracy 3D aerial laser mapping(1), autonomous 3D aerial magnetic scanning(2), and aerial inspection.
The Scout B1-100 UAV system consists of an industrial-grade autonomously flying helicopter with a customer payload(3) up to 18 kg and a flight endurance(4) up to 90 min.
The complete flight mission can be pre-programmed from lift-off, hovering, cruising to landing with high positioning accuracy.
Various safety features such as autonomous homing and automatic landing in case of link-loss as well as redundant backup links are part of the standard UAV helicopter system.
(1) as documented in the EU research project at ETH Zurich 2006-2010, www.bacs.ethz.ch
(2) as shown in joint projects with Mobile Geophysical Technologies
(MGT), www.mgt-geo.com
(3) Total payload = equipment + electronics + fuel = 30kg.
(4) The flight endurance has been tested at 500m AMSL in hover flight out of ground effect