Drone Testing

Testing and Challenges

Testing drones in the field is challenging:

The environment is what it is and can’t be controlled.
Environmental conditions are not repeatable.
Test engineers must travel to myriad field environments.
Regulations are stringent, constantly changing, and inconsistent from one place to another.

All this drives up costs and time-to-market significantly.

Azimuth's Drone Testing Solutions

Azimuth's solutions solve the challenges associated with drone testing, and help you bring a better product to the market, faster and with lower costs by moving more of the testing to the controlled, repeatable environment of the lab.

Azimuth offers a family of solutions built on the ACE channel emulators, the scalable RF Platform—Spider™—and our field playback solution, Field-to-Lab. These help test performance under:

Typical user scenarios (e.g., drone flying towards the user)
Characteristic RF environments (e.g., drone flying in an indoor environment with lots of scatterers)
Actual field environments (e.g., drone flying inside a specific sports stadium)

In addition, Azimuth's solutions also help test different aspects of the drone such as the radio link/module or the drone/overriding applications.

Radio link between the drone and the controller

Focus on testing the performance of the radio module (s) under different RF environments (e.g., fading channels, velocity)
Relevant for the radio module manufacturers, drone manufacturers

Drone

Focus on testing the performance of the drone or an overriding application under different usage scenarios
Relevant for drone manufacturers, service providers, application developers

Use Cases

Testing the performance of the radio module, drone, or overriding applications
Benchmarking/regression testing of drones, modules, algorithms
Catching issues before going to the field (the lab is a controlled environment, so issues are easier to re-create and address)
Re-create field issues such as poor video quality in a high interference environment

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