Geoscan: Autonomous flight simulator of quadcopters

2024: Introduction of the Geoscan Pioneer autonomous flight simulator for quadcopters

The Geoskan group of companies has developed its own autonomous flight simulator for quadcopters of the Geoskan Pioneer line. It allows you to practice programming skills for both a single device and a group without using real drones. This software will be available to Geoscan Pioneer users in March 2024. The developer announced this on February 26, 2024.

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The simulator presents two main devices - the Geoscan Pioneer Basic and Geoscan Pioneer Mini quadcopters. In the program, you can start the drone engines, work out takeoff and landing, fly at the specified coordinates, turn on and off the LED backlight in different modes, get data from sensors and information about the exact location of the quadcopter, etc.

Users can fully simulate the Geoscan Arena competitive training ground and prepare for competitions in virtual mode. The program supports simulating simultaneous flight of a group of drones, which will be useful for practicing roy intelligence algorithms or testing scenarios of drone light shows. There are several levels of complexity that allow you to bring flight conditions as close as possible to the real ones. Support for two languages ​ ​ has been implemented - Russian and English, which makes the simulator available to foreign users of Geoscan Pioneer quadcopters.

The capabilities of drones as autonomous systems are constantly evolving. And if earlier in the educational process the copter was more often considered as a single object, now the tasks of group control come to the fore. It is better to start acquaintance with such algorithms in a virtual environment - during debugging and checking, the technician will be safe, there are no flight time restrictions, etc. I am glad that now we can offer such a software product, - commented Alexey Yuretsky, General Director of Geoskan.