THE SILENT FLYER
The Silent Flyer is a wing-flapping drone that looks and flies like a bird while incorporating vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities. Radar can’t distinguish it from a normal bird, making it ideal for use in security and surveillance applications.
The Silent Flyer can be customized to mimic different birds (by varying color, wing and feather shape/color) which will enable blending in with local avian species, thereby making visual detection difficult and reducing the environmental impact over autochthonous species.
The challenges of the current drone technology today are noise due to rotors, propeller, jet engines, fixed wings and the difficulty to hover and no vertical take-off/landing.
Flygildi’s Silent Flyer takes the technology to the next level and builds the new generation of drones, that combines the advantages of fixed-wing and multirotor while avoiding the disadvantages, by closely looking at nature, a bio-inspired bird-like drone.
FEATURES
The novelty of the Silent Flyer lies in the design of the bird-like flapping wings and tail, which can be categorized as controllable flexible structures. The wings have four degrees of freedom, i.e. for flapping, tilting, morphing and moving back and forth. The wings are independently controlled and can also be folded to the body of the bird for easy transport. The tail has three degrees of freedom.
Beak and neck operation: the head is controlled by servomotors and can be moved up, down and sideways. Beak can be opened and closed.
This makes the drone more energy efficient allowing it to stay airborne for longer. A combination of gliding/soaring and flapping may give the drone a typical flying time of around 40 minutes. If continuously flapping, the current flying time is around 15 to 20 minutes.
- Fully autonomous operation
- Ability to operate in windy conditions
- Real-time data collection
- Payload capacity of 0.2kg, allowing installation of surveillance cameras in the beak
- Wing span of 1.3m can be customized for each project
- Altitude capability of over 300m and a flying speed of 55km/h
- Easy launch and landing capabilities
- not visible on radar
The uniqueness of the Silent Flyer
- Silent
- Disguised
- Endurance
- Increase work efficiency
- Decrease workload and operational costs
- Improving accuracy
- Improved safety
- Customer- specific payloads
- Can be folded together for easy transport
TEAM
The Employees
Helga Viðarsdóttir
Chief Executive Officer
Jökull Jóhannsson
Financial Director
Björg Ormslev Ásgeirsdóttir
Marketing Director
Peter Höller
Technical Director
Ingólfur Kolbeinsson
Technical Specialist
The Advisors
Hermann Kristjánsson
Business development advisor
Leifur Þór Leifsson
Co-founder and technical advisor
About the company Flygildi
Flygildi is an innovative company, founded in 2012 that is developing the next disruptive technology for the fast-growing drone market – a robotic bird drone. A new design solving the greatest challenge of surveillance today.
The Founders
HJALTI HARDARSON
- Co-Founder
MEng, electrical engineering, Cornell University, University of Iceland.
Leifur Þór Leifsson
Co-founder and technical advisor
Ph.D. aerospace engineering, Virginia Tech., University of Iceland.
NEWS
Silent Flyer in the media
Flygildi Emerges from Stealth at DroneX 2023
Silent Flyer breaking the boundaries of innovation!
Recognized as a Leading Pioneer from across the Sector, where we have made a outstanding impact on the world of VTOL.
Silent Flyer and Purdue University
Silent Flyer have started a cooperation with Purdue University in Indiana in US
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