Iran-Made Flight Control, Guidance System Mounted on Drone
“Thanks to the efforts of Moslem Khaki, an innovative student at the Islamic Azad University’s Najafabad branch, a drone with completely Iran-made flight control and guidance system was built at the Digital Processing and Machine Vision Research Center of the university,” Khoshnam Shojayee, the head of the Digital Processing and Machine Vision Research Center of the Islamic Azad University’s Najafabad branch, told ANA.
“The importance of designing and building an internal flight control is that it reduces the possibility of cyber attacks and hacking of the program and increases the flexibility of programming for flight operations and maneuvering by the user,” he added.
“This flight controller, which is based on the ATMega32 microcontroller, can be mounted on different drones by connecting to a radio control system up to 15 kilometers away, and can be used specially for military applications,” Shojayee said.
Iran has made good progress in manufacturing different drones used for various purposes.
Last year, Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company had also managed to indigenize the technology of designing and manufacturing propulsion systems used in electric motorcycles and drones.
“One of our company's products is brushless motor for electric bicycles which is used for propulsion and it is installed in the rear wheel of the bicycle, and since the know-how for its production has been indigenized, we can also use it in electric motorcycles, electric scooters and electric wheelchairs,” said Hadi Hosseinpour, the managing-director of the knowledge-based company.
Noting that his company also produces brushless motors for drones and quadcopters, he said, “All the stages of designing and manufacturing this product were completed by our experts.”
He added that the know-how for making brushless motors and drivers has been indigenized in his company in a way that they can design and build any motor with certain specifications for the customers.
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