Embention

Embention makes autopilots, flight controllers and avionics. Its products serve drones, unmanned ground and surface vehicles, and eVTOL passenger aircraft. The main autopilot line is called Veronte. The company is listed on Euronext Growth Paris under the ticker ALUAV, and it has a US office in Los Angeles.

Veronte autopilots

The Veronte range has three families, built for different levels of redundancy.

• 1x: a programmable control system for drones, ground vehicles and surface vehicles, with sensor redundancy. Embention lists it as fail-safe.
• 4x: a redundant autopilot core for large UAVs and for certification of crewed eVTOL aircraft. It is listed as fail-operational.
• DRx: a distributed redundant autopilot for autonomous flight and fly-by-wire control.

Embention also offers hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop test tools, vision-based navigation, and navigation technology for flying where GNSS is not available.

The wider ecosystem

Around the autopilots, Embention sells four more product families: avionics, motor controllers, control stations and tracking systems. The avionics include I/O expansion boards, bus management, data concentration and communication systems. The company says its motor controllers are made for eVTOL and crewed aircraft and work up to 800 V and 110 kW. The control stations are meant for long range links with drones and other autonomous vehicles. Embention says all of these products work with each other and with third party systems.

Certification

Embention says it is approved as a POA and APDOA organization. It says its products are designed to the DO-178C, DO-254 and DO-160G standards for aircraft certification. The company also reports that EASA approved an ETSO certification basis for the Veronte Autopilot, which it describes as the first guidance and flight control system for UAS and eVTOL to go through an ETSO-C198 process. If certification matters for your program, ask for the current status of the product you plan to use.

Customers and partners

Embention says it signed an agreement with Amazon to support the Prime Air drone delivery program. Its platforms cover multirotors, fixed-wing aircraft, VTOLs, helicopters and eVTOLs, and the company says they can fly fully autonomous, assisted or manual modes.