Optosignal Limited

We are developing Remotely Piloted Aircraft ("RPA") for use in scientific (ice thickness monitoring), commercial (oil, gas and mineral exploration) and state (border patrol) applications. The greatest technical challenge to the use of RPA, operating Beyond Line Of Sight ("BLOS"), is the deployment of an effective collision detection sensor, combined with ...

We aim to explore the feasibility of developing a networked array of acoustic sensors together with the sensor data processing to create a dynamic, multi-spectral, acoustic imaging sensor. We plan to overlay the false colour acoustic intensity contour map on the thermal video image of the same area to help with the identification of the sources of the sou...

Our idea is to increase the registration accuracy and the sensitivity of a scanning LIDAR mapping sensor and reduce the weight of the unit by combining: --- high speed, high resolution, digitising and storage of the reflected optical waveform --- synchronised optical line scans and stereo imaging pairs to enable precision registration --- processing the d...

The aim of this technology inspired innovation is to develop the software and hardware to enable the demonstration of a swarm of robotic airborne sensor platforms (RASPs) capable of performing tasks quickly, autonomously and far less expensively than is possible with a single sensor platform, or, performing tasks that cannot otherwise be accomplished usin...

Shell, BP and Statoil have all voiced interest in the use of small Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) unmanned multi-rotor air vehicles, to act as stabilised sensor platforms gas flare stack inspections: it would significantly reduce the cost of the inspections. The questions to be confronted by us are: • how big is this market? • what are the market dy...

We have encountered opportunities for a stereo image processor that operates in real time. These opportunities include the core of an optic flow unit for use in vision based navigation, a collision detection unit for use in ground and airborne manned and unmanned vehicles, distance perception in a tele-operated robotic system that might be used in a hazar...

We propose to investigate the market opportunities for a Precision Registration Laser Based Mapping sensor that could be used in Digital Elevation Mapping, the detection of vehicles underneath foliage, aircraft navigation, collision detection for unmanned aircraft and unmanned ground vehicles and in ash cloud monitoring. A shortcoming in the scanning LIDA...

We have been intrigued with the potential for small Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft to act as sensor platforms that can be moved and parked in space. During the last 6 years we have developed and tested small (2m rotor diameter) helicopters powered by internal combustion engines and by electric motors, and have operated electromagne...

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