One model. Every phase of your drone's life.
From first design decisions to operation and continuous improvement, FF Twin is built around one connected UAV model. You don't start over at every stage. You build forward.
Today, UAV development is split across separate tools, teams and stages. Design, control, training and maintenance often start from different models and different assumptions.
FF Twin is built to connect those stages through one evolving model of the vehicle.
Each phase adds and extracts information to and from the existing model, instead of starting over.
Design & Optimize
This is the foundation of FF Twin.
- Mission-based design requirements
- Energy decomposition and performance analysis
- Propeller and rotor interaction modelling
- Motor and propulsion matching
- Airframe and component effects
- Automated optimisation of design parameters
- Comparison of design alternatives
Simulate & Train
The same model used to design the UAV can also be used to simulate how it behaves before the physical vehicle is available.
- Simulation of the specific UAV configuration
- Digital calibration and testing of flight-control algorithms
- Pilot training on the vehicle before production and delivery
- Mission and flight-path simulation
- Wind and environmental-condition modelling
Produce & Configure
An optimised design still has to be manufactured, sourced and adapted to real-world production and shipping constraints.
- Component selection matched to calculated requirements
- Motor, propeller, ESC and energy-storage selection
- Supplier and component substitutions
- Performance, cost and availability trade-off analysis
- Configuration of a base design for customer-specific missions
Operate & Improve
Once the UAV is flying, the model can continue to create value.
- Mission planning and optimisation
- Flight-path and energy optimisation
- Comparison of flight data against model predictions
- Detection of performance deviations and anomalies
- Predictive maintenance
- Fleet-level control and monitoring
- Design recommendations based on real operating data
A UAV typically passes through several specialist teams and software environments during its lifetime. Design engineers, control engineers, production teams, operators and maintenance teams may all work from different models and assumptions.
Every handover creates the risk of losing knowledge and rebuilding information that already existed earlier in the process.
FF Twin is built around the opposite principle: one vehicle, one evolving model.
The information created during design becomes the foundation for simulation. Simulation informs production and training. Operational data can later improve both the model and future versions of the vehicle. Thus, no information is lost and all the obtained information is reused.
FF Twin is in active development.
Design & Optimize is the current focus and is available in beta testing. Simulate & Train is in development. Produce & Configure and Operate & Improve describe the longer-term roadmap.
The purpose of this page is to show the direction of the platform without presenting future capabilities as features that are already available today.
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