Develops and manufactures autopilot hardware and ground-control software for uncrewed aircraft, including single-board, enclosed and triple-redundant autopilots, simulators and developer SDKs.
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Develops and manufactures autopilot hardware and ground-control software for uncrewed aircraft, including single-board, enclosed and triple-redundant autopilots, simulators and developer SDKs.
Incorporated in 1994, with its head office at 72067 Rd 8E, Sturgeon Rd, Stony Mountain, Manitoba. micropilot.com
Boeing signed a contract with MicroPilot in September 2024 to develop autopilot and ground-control software enhancements for small uncrewed aircraft. micropilot.com
Under that contract Aurora Flight Sciences is to deliver two SKIRON-X small uncrewed aircraft systems to MicroPilot as development platforms. micropilot.com
That Boeing work is structured as an Investment Framework Agreement under Canada's Industrial and Technological Benefits policy, and is to create software and flight-test roles in Stony Mountain. micropilot.com
States it has served over 2,000 clients in more than 125 countries across 30-plus years. micropilot.com
Operates its own flight test facility near Winnipeg with two runways under a Transport Canada Special Flight Operations Certificate, usable roughly 300 days a year. micropilot.com
Was announced in July 2020 as the first purchaser of MANNARINO's M-RTOS, an ARINC-653-compliant, DO-178C-certifiable real-time operating system for remotely piloted aircraft. micropilot.com
Products MicroPilot publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
UAV autopilot
Compact circuit-board autopilots for aircraft ranging from one-pound micro air vehicles to high-speed turbine-powered drones, covering fixed-wing, helicopter, transitional and multirotor types. Commercially available.
Learn moreUAV autopilot
Enclosed autopilot package with an integrated redundant long-range communications link for beyond-line-of-sight flight. Commercially available.
Learn moreRedundant UAV autopilot
Triple-redundant autopilot with 11 serial ports, eight high-current drivers each with redundant power inputs, and 16 independently generated servo signals. Commercially available.
Learn moreGround control software
Ground control station software for mission planning, flight monitoring and parameter tuning, which the product page says is used by over 1,500 clients in 100 countries.
Learn moreSimulation
Hardware-in-the-loop UAV simulator for validating autopilot behaviour before flight test. Commercially available.
Learn moreDeveloper SDK
Software development kit for customising control laws and adding autopilot features, with a companion XTENDERvalidate requirements and design-lifecycle tool.
Learn moreHow MicroPilot says its technology can be deployed and delivered.
A five-day course covering installation, configuration, ground-control operation, flight testing and parameter adjustment for teams adopting its autopilots.
Autopilot integration and test flying, either at MicroPilot's own flight facility or on site at the customer, including an end-to-end one-step UAV integration service.
Custom UAV software and hardware development - plug-ins, new autopilot features, custom sensors, specialised I/O and autopilot repackaging.
Publicly announced partnerships.
Executed contract (September 2024) for autopilot and ground-control software enhancements for small uncrewed aircraft; Aurora delivers two SKIRON-X development platforms. No value given.
Product integration (April 2022) of Septentrio mosaic and AsteRx-m3 GNSS receivers with MicroPilot autopilots for high-precision UAV positioning.
MicroPilot was announced in July 2020 as the first purchaser of M-RTOS, a DO-178C-certifiable real-time operating system. MicroPilot is the customer here.
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