Close up image of Hermes drone

Our Drones

Learn about our drones and their various uses

Hermes

Hermes is a customizable quadcopter with a carbon fiber frame used in delivery and disposal tasks.

For the 2021 competition, it was equipped with mecanum wheels for driving, as well as a robotic arm for loading medical supply boxes into its storage compartment.

In 2022, Hermes was used as an intruder surveillance and device disposal UAV. It contains an OpenCV AI Kit camera for intruder detection and tracking, along with a retractable grapple for foreign device detection and disposal.

Babyshark

Babyshark is a long range transport VTOL used in distance tasks.

It has 4 rotors for vertical flight (drone configuration), and single pusher propeller with control surfaces for level forward flight. It has the ability to fly for 40km. Babyshark has wheels to drive to locations, as well as a gripper to pick up objects.

Babyshark placed first for distance based UAV in the 2021 competition. It was used for picking up and transporting medical supply packages at a specified clinic.

Triple B

Triple B is an imagery and payload delivery hexacopter, used in inspection and delivery tasks.

It contains a Sony A5000 video camera and a Flir Vue Pro IR camera, a custom delivery mechanism, and a state of the art autopilot system with capable GPS resolution up to 2cm.

Triple B can be used for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) solar farm surveys by providing visual representations of solar panels and their geolocations. It can perform detailed inspections to identify damaged solar panels. It can also identify significant changes to map features from provided pre-windstorm map.

Harpy

Harpy is a Long Range Payload Delivery UAV, used in distance based tasks.

Its outfitted with a 360° video camera, a custom delivery mechanism, an autopilot system with GPS, and a NVIDIA Jetson TX2 with stereo camera system.

It was used in the 2019 UAS competition for the distance based delivery task where it must reach the VLOS Package Depot, pick up a specified package, travel multiple kilometres, and drop the package at the specified destination.