The Austrian pioneer in unmanned aerial vehicles

At the Institute of Aviation of FH JOANNEUM, an emphasis was placed on unmanned aerial vehicles early on. As early as 2007, the first R&D project was completed. Since then, the institute has been working intensively on innovative aircraft concepts, materials and construction methods.

The certification aspects of unmanned aerial vehicles, novel multicopter concepts, experimental and simulation-based studies on aircraft icing and avionics systems, are its fields of expertise.

In addition to fixed-wing aircraft, multicopters with innovative control systems are also used. For its own strategic orientation, the AustrianUCM potential study was as influential as the development and certification of the first JXP-V aircraft.

Projects

• AustrianUCM [Take Off]: Austrian UAS for civil Missions
• CertLink [Take Off]: Certifiable Data Link in Time Triggered-Architecture for Remote Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• ALEVTOLUS [Take Off]: Development of a concept for an all-weather long-term VTOL UAV for traffic monitoring
• OMOSA [Take Off]: Open Modular/Open Source Avionics Architecture for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
• HiliCopter [Take Off]: Development of a certifiable High-Lift Multicopter with Range Extender
• Demona [Take Off]: Demonstration of UAS Integration for VLL Airspace Operations
• rescUAV [Take Off]: Drones as a means of action in fire, rescue and major damage operations
• NoDroneZone [Take Off]: Study to prevent or safely interrupt the operation of RPAS in defined airspace