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Control system design
PID design and tuning, ArduPilot and PX4 software development, control logic and much more.
UAV consulting · Flight testing · Flight data
Uncrewed systems, engineered end to end.
APIS Dynamics designs, builds, tests and analyses uncrewed vehicles. Control software, electronics, command-and-control links, and flight test campaigns at our own 100-acre range outside Toronto.
2016
Founded in Toronto, Canada
100 acres
Dedicated UAS test range
10+ years
Across air, land and sea vehicles
1000s
Of flight logs analysed
About us
A Canadian engineering partner for uncrewed vehicles
Established in 2016, APIS Dynamics is a Canadian business headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. We provide end-to-end support for uncrewed vehicle development, drawing on more than a decade of experience with fixed-wing, multirotor and traditional helicopter UAVs, rovers, submarines, and lighter-than-air vehicles.
We write control software, design electronic circuits, architect command-and-control links, plan and execute flight test campaigns, and conduct operations in North America and around the world.
Fixed-wing
Multirotor
Helicopter
VTOL
Rover
Submarine
Lighter-than-air
Consulting services
From concept to flight-proven system
Whether you need one subsystem fixed or a whole vehicle delivered, we bring the control, electrical, software and test-engineering depth to get it flying and keep it flying.
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Flight data analysis
Analysis of single flight logs or thousands of logs in aggregate to diagnose problems, verify requirements and characterise reliability.
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Flight tests and operations
Turnkey flight test program planning and execution at our 100-acre field outside Toronto.
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Safety and risk
Characterising operational risk in probability of fatality per operational hour, for a single operation or a whole fleet.
Control systems development
- PID development and tuning
- Flight controller software development
- ArduPilot and PX4 HITL/SITL simulation
- ArduPilot and PX4 support
Systems engineering
- Identifying and defining system and subsystem requirements
- Validation
- Verification plans
Flight test & evaluation
- Test campaign planning
- Flight testing at our 100-acre test site in Canada
- Flight log analysis for troubleshooting and verification
Operations
- Operational support drawing on experience conducting BVLOS operations in remote locations in North and South America
Embedded software
- Microcontroller firmware development (C++, MicroPython)
- Linux single-board computer software development
- ROS support and development
Electrical / electronic engineering
- Electronic circuit and PCB design
- Lithium battery sizing
- Electrical powertrain / propulsion system sizing and specification
- Debugging / troubleshooting electrical systems
Data analysis / analytics
- Efficient mass-scale analysis of thousands of flight logs
- Reliability characterisation
- Troubleshooting intermittent / transient bugs
- Fleet / program metrics for internal goal setting and reporting to regulators
- Dashboarding / visualising data
- Geomatics for flyable space (population density, airspace regulations, digital elevation maps)
Command and control links
- C2 power & link budget
- Point-to-point, satcom, cellular, mesh
- Antenna selection
- Antenna trackers / pointers
Forensic investigation
- Root cause analysis of UAV flight anomalies and incidents
Turnkey UAV builds
- Concept design through to manufacturing of multirotors, fixed-wings, VTOLs, helicopters, airships, rovers, boats and submarines
Flight testing
Toronto UAS Flight Test Space
TUFTS offers comprehensive, turnkey testing for uncrewed aircraft systems at a dedicated 100-acre test range just off Highway 404.
If you're developing a vehicle, we can test it for you. If you're developing software or payloads, we can install your product on our vehicles. Our multirotor and fixed-wing fleet suits almost any payload or software purpose, and our team has decades of experience designing and executing UAS test plans.
100acres
Off Hwy 404
Multirotor & fixed-wing fleet
Turnkey test campaigns
Meala database system
Flight data made simple. Decisions made easy.
Convert unlimited log data into usable insight, automatically.
- Logs upload automatically from the vehicle, or manually via browser
- Multiple sources (vehicle, GCS, payload, operator) linked to one flight ID
- Cloud analysis distilled into SQL-ready metadata
- Search with SQL or plain-language, AI-powered questions
- Aggregate and visualise metrics across thousands of flights
- Access your data seamlessly through our API
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Tell us about your project
A stuck tuning problem, a test campaign to plan, or a fleet's worth of logs to make sense of. Send a note and we'll get back to you.