Flybotix ASIO X
Visual inspections in confined spaces are notorious for their risks, time-consuming nature, and high costs. However, with the ASIO X Drone, these challenges become opportunities for efficiency and safety. The ASIO X Drone offers a comprehensive, high-tech solution for professionals seeking to enhance their operational capabilities in confined spaces. Engineered with a patented Electromagnetic tilting system and an advanced sensor array, this drone ensures stability and accuracy, even in challenging environments.
The ASIO X drone is built from carbon fiber and aerospace-grade composites ensuring durability, while its intuitive control algorithms and safety features simplify operation for pilots of all levels. With a comprehensive suite of cameras and sensors, including RGB and IR cameras, 3D Lidar, and more, inspectors can conduct thorough inspections from a safe distance, eliminating the need to enter hazardous environments. By keeping your inspectors out of harm’s way, the ASIO X not only protects your most valuable assets but also ensures compliance with safety regulations.
20 Minutes
Flight Time
40K Lumen
Oblique Lighting
True 4K + IR
Camera
FLIR 160x120px @9fps
Infrared Camera
LiDAR
Payload
GAS
Detector
Integrated Gas Detection
The ASIO drone comes equipped with an advanced gas detection payload, allowing you to safely and quickly identify and monitor hazardous gases in confined spaces. This feature is crucial for protecting your workers and ensuring their safety. The gas detection payload includes an array of highly accurate sensors capable of detecting a wide range of hazardous gases, such as Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), Carbon Monoxide (CO), and Oxygen (O2). With these sensors, you can be confident that you’re receiving the most precise data available.
Locates and Quantifies Four Gases: Methane (CH4), Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), Oxygen (O2), and Carbon Monoxide (CO).
Intervenes Swiftly: The drone enables rapid response to potential hazards, ensuring the safety of your staff.
Ensures Better Situational Awareness: Enhances asset monitoring and maintains a safer working environment for humans.
LiDAR Payload
The ASIO drone features a state-of-the-art LiDAR system, delivering real-time 3D mapping of inspection areas. This technology enables the creation of precise and detailed environmental maps, essential for planning, navigation, and data analysis. The integrated LiDAR system adheres to the highest standards, ensuring you receive the most accurate information available.
Key Features:
Create Accurate 3D Maps: Generates precise 3D representations of inspected confined spaces.
Digitize Assets: Enables asset localization and defect measurement.
Leverage Insights: Provides unprecedented insights into assets, promoting safer operations.
Efficient & safe inspections for difficult-to-reach industrial assets
Collision-Proof Cage
When flying in confined spaces, or out of sight, the risk of coming into contact with surfaces is high. ASIO X has been designed with advanced materials to resist collisions. The protective cage ensures contact with the environment or with the cage itself has the highest level of safety.
Protective Design
Patented Propulsion System
Sensors & Control Algorithms
High-Definition Camera
Protective Design
ASIO X lightweight design (below 100g), is built with advanced materials to ensure optimal resistance when it comes into contact with the environment. These materials include a combination of advanced polymer composite used in the automotive industry and defence-grade strings, enabling a long-life for your investment. And even in the event of an incident, the cage replacement is quick and easy so you can get back to your operation in a matter of minutes.
Patented Propulsion System
Flybotix’s patented propulsion system is built around two large coaxial and reclining propellers allowing extended flight time (up to 24 minutes), reduced noise level (only at 80dB at 1m) and redundancy. ASIO’s coaxial rotor technology ensures a redundancy in the control and propulsion systems, safely landing the drone in case of an incident.
High-Definition Camera
Featuring a 4K resolution (3840×2160 pixels) camera, the indoor drone allows you to spot the tiniest details in true colours and to capture 12 megapixels pictures directly during the flight. You can also spot defects that would otherwise be undetectable thanks to its infrared sensor thermal camera.
The 40,000 lumen luminous power, can make the darkest places as clear as daylight, and the live-streaming feature provides you with full control of your operation. You can also store all data on board, in full definition, and on an ultra-fast micro SD card.
Accurate Positioning and Navigation
ASIO X, and its 12+ advanced sensors work seamlessly to measure altitude and position at 8000 times per second. This allows you to navigate and operate with high precision, even in GPS-deprived environments.
Sensors & Control Algorithms
ASIO X integrates more than a dozen sensors to measure attitude and position 8000 times per second, making it perfectly stable in the most challenging environments, without the need of GPS.
Pilots can also adjust the horizontal speed with a single joystick thanks to the wall-lock algorithm, which maintains a constant distance to the wall and the altitude of the drone.
Additionally, the indoor drone can follow its path backwards, and smoothly land via its rewind algorithm and auto-landing button respectively. Its obstacle repulsion simulates an invisible sphere surrounding ASIO and continuously analyzes the environment to automatically avoid collisions. The Safety slowdown feature ensures ASIO can stop before touching an obstacle, even during max speed.
Features:
- Obstacle repulsion, safety slowdown and self-righting
- Advanced control algorithms
- Auto-landing
- Wall-lock stabilization, ground-lock stabilization, and roof-lock stabilization
- Rewind flight-path
- Photogrammetry mode
- Lightweight, portable, easy to use
Applications
ASIO is the ideal solution for inspecting indoor, industrial and confined environments; such as the inside of a wind turbine blade, a hydropower penstock, wastewater sewers, storm sewers, drainage systems, tanks, and much more.
What’s Included
Tech Specs
Drone
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Configuration | Dual coaxial propellers |
| Flight time | Up to 20 minutes |
| Motors | 2 brushless motors |
| Propellers | Two propellers, Ø13” |
| Tilt system | Patented Electromagnetic tilting system (no swashplate, no servomotor) |
| Max speed | Assisted: 1 m/s (3.2 ft/s) Manual: 5 m/s (23 ft/s) |
| Navigation LEDs | 2: red (port), green (starboard) |
| Lighting LEDs | 8 panels |
| Dimensions | Ø450mm, H315mm (Ø17.7”, H11.6”) |
| Wind speed resistance | Up to 3 m/s (10 ft/s) |
| Payload sensors | 1x RGB 4K camera, 1x IR camera, 1 x Luminosity sensor, 1x 3D Time of Flight (ToF) Lidar, 1x Radar |
| Payload tilt | 180° (±90°) |
| Materials | Carbon fiber, aerospace grade composites, 3D printed thermoplastics |
| Sensors | 3x IMUs ( 1 High-grade + 1 fallback), 1x magnetometer, 1x barometer, 6x distance sensors, 6x optical flow sensors, 1x radar, 2x global shutter cameras (VIO) |
| Operating temperature | 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F) |
| Operating frequencies | 2402 – 2480 MHz |
| Weight | 1.150kg (2.53 lbs) EIRP < 20 dBm |
| Noise level | Hover: 80dB @ 1m (3.2 ft) |
| Protection | Dust and water projections |
| Control algorithms | Flight stabilization, Height Lock, Wall Lock, Tube Lock, Recovery, Rewind, Autoland |
| Certifications | CE, FCC |
| LEDs intensity | Up to 32000 Lumen |
| Data storage | Onboard SD card (FAT32 format) |
Remote Controller
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Screen size | 5.5” |
| Connectivity | microUSB, Wifi 2.4GHz |
| Screen mirroring | Yes |
| Operating frequencies | 2402 – 2480 MHz |
| Joysticks | 1 (2 for drone and 1 for payload) |
| EIRP | < 20 dBm |
| Weight | 515 g (18 oz) |
| Battery life | 4 h |
| Operating temperature | 0°C to 45°C (32°F to 115°F) |
| Battery capacity | 4950 mAh |
| Resolution | Full HD (1920 x 1080 px) |
Battery Pack
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Battery type | Lithium Polymer (LiPo) |
| Nominal voltage | 19 V |
| Energy | 74.1 Wh |
| Capacity | 3900 mAh |
| Charging time | 1.10 h (100%), 40 min (80%) |
| Storage temperature | -25°C to 35°C (-13°F to 95°F) |
| Plane transportation | Approved for carry-on luggage |
| Safety transport bag | Yes |
| Life Time | 100 charge cycles |
RGB Camera
Attribute
Details
Sensor type
CMOS Rolling shutter
Sensor size
1/2.3”
Sensor resolution
12.3 MP
Still pictures resolution
4056 x 3040 px
Video recording
4K: 3840×2160 px, 30 fps
Video streaming
720p, 30 fps
Formats
Video: MP4; pictures: JPG
Effective resolution
0.2mm at 30cm (1ft)
Field of view
153° diagonal, 121° horizontal
Depth of field
30cm (1ft) to infinity
IR Camera
Attribute
Details
Sensor type
FLIR Lepton 3.5 (radiometric)
Sensitivity
<50 mK
Sensor resolution
160×120 px
Wavelength
8μm to 14μm
Field of view
71° diagonal, 57° horizontal
Data recording
MP4 video, 9fps
Temperature range
-10°C to 400°C (14°F to 750°F)
Gimbal System
Attribute
Details
Maximum upwards inclination
+90°
Total FOV
273° vertical, 121° horizontal
Frontal view
93° diagonal, 121° horizontal
Stabilization
Active Pitch stabilization, Passive vibration damping
Unobstructed FOV
Vertical: 185°, Horizontal: 121° at pitch 0°, 50° at pitch ±90°
Lighting LEDs
Attribute
Details
Max luminosity
40,000 lumen
LED light temperature
4000K, CRI 70
Dimmable
0-100% (levels > 20% available in strobe mode)
Orientation
Left / right / up / front / down (dimmed by software)
Nominal power
2x 15W (eq. 3min flight time reduction) at 100%
VIO Cameras and 3D LiDAR
Attribute
Details
VIO camera type (2x)
Mono Global shutter RGB
POV
150° diagonal, 127° Horizontal, 172×127 combined
Resolution
Up to 1280 x 800 px
3D LiDAR
3D LiDAR FOV
106° x 86°
3D LiDAR range
0.1 – 7m
3D LiDAR framerate
5 fps
Transport Case
Attribute
Details
Dimensions
66x54x39 cm3
Empty weight
11.5 kg
Total weight
16 kg