Drone Delivery Canada, University of Toronto and Defence Research & Development Canada Announce Partnership
(firmenpresse) - DRONE DELIVERY CANADA, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AND DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CANADA ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT OF A VISION BASED DRONE NAVIGATION SYSTEM
A Next Generation Drone Auto-Pilot Beyond Visual Line of Sight Technology
Highlights:
- Development of Next Generation Drone Auto-Pilot Beyond Visual Line of Sight Technology
- Partnership with University of Toronto and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)
- DDC will have rights to use the developed intellectual property and Integrate into its Proprietary FLYTE - Auto-Pilot System
Toronto, ON, 03. 22. 2017, Drone Delivery Canada DDC or the Company (CSE: FLT), is pleased to
announce that it has entered into a Sponsored Research and Collaboration Agreement with the University of Toronto and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development granting program to jointly develop a vision based navigation solution for UAVs (drones) to safely navigate without the reliance of GPS technology.
For DDC, the partnership will provide the Company leading technology on the forefront of Drone Auto-Pilot Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Technology to safely navigate without the reliance of GPS technology moving DDC another significant step closer to commercialization. In this partnership, DDC will benefit from the intellectual property developed and will Integrate into its Proprietary FLYTE Auto-Pilot System.
We are working on this next generation BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) drone technology with some of Canadas smartest minds, commented Paul Di Benedetto, CTO of Drone Delivery Canada. This collaboration will greatly accelerate our development of vision-based navigation technology for our FLYTE software management and auto-pilot systems required for commercialization, added Di Benedetto.
The development initiative will be co-led by Professor Angela Schoellig and Professor Tim Barfoot of the University of Torontos Institute of Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Professor Schoellig heads up the Dynamic Systems Lab at UTIAS. She is also an Associate Director of the newly founded Center for Aerial Robotics Research and Education (CARRE) at the University of Toronto. With her team, she conducts research at the interface of robotics, controls and machine learning. Professor Schoellig has been working with aerial vehicles for the past eight years and, more recently, has applied her motion planning, control and learning algorithms to self-driving vehicles. Professor Barfoot who holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Autonomous Space Robotics is an expert in vision-based navigation and is the Principal Investigator of the Autonomous Space Robotics Lab (ASRL) at UTIAS.
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) is co-funding this project alongside DDC. DRDC is the national leader in defence and security science and technology and is the agency of Canadas Department of National Defence (DND), DRDC provides DND, the Canadian Armed Forces and other government departments as well as the public safety and national security communities, the knowledge and technological advantage needed to defend and protect Canadas interests at home and abroad.
For more information, please visit www.dronedeliverycanada.com
About Drone Delivery Canada
Drone Delivery Canada is a drone technology company focused on the design, development and implementation of its proprietary logistics software platform utilizing drones. The Companys platform will be used as Software as a Service (SaaS) for government and corporate organizations. Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is a publicly listed company trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol FLT.
For further information, please contact:
Richard Buzbuzian, President
Telephone: (416) 361-6167
Email: richard(at)dronedeliverycanada.com
Bill Mitoulis, Investor Relations
Telephone: (416) 837-7147
Email: billm(at)venturenorthcapital.com
Nelson Hudes, Media Relations
Telephone: (905) 660-9155
Email: nelson(at)hudescommunications.com
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Datum: 22.03.2017 - 08:17 Uhr
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