Nexus (a parachute system for drones)

2019: Certification of a parachute system

In January, 2019 it became known that the company Indemnis developed an abnormal system for unmanned aerial vehicle DJI Inspire 2 which will help to secure people on the earth, slowly lowering the drone on a parachute. The system called Nexus is the first in own way which meets the new accepted international standard of security (Nexus of the first began to satisfy to it) and gives the chance safely to UAVs to fly over people.

To get permission to serial release, development passed a number of tests which included 45 functional tests with five different scenarios of failure. Thus the company guarantees that the parachute is developed every time in due time.

Drones with breakdown will go down on parachutes. The standard is approved

The sensors which are built in the Nexus system trace an inclination and fluctuations of the drone. At detection of anomalies of flight, the parachute designed in such a way that it does not adjoin to the body or rotors which could damage it is developed.

Flight of the drone in the crowded place is integrated to risk: it can fall and injure the person. For this reason the Federal Aviation Administration issues permission to flight of the UAV over places of accumulation of people only if the company can prove that the mechanisms helping to secure passersby are provided. Already there are cages which can rotate around rotors, for example, not to cut someone, but they do not save from blow when falling the drone. The parachute in this case provides the slow landing excluding blow and allowing people to step aside.

Nexus is the parachute installation started automatically if the drone suddenly begins to deviate regulation or to fall. It develops a parachute for 30 milliseconds with a speed of 144 km/h, quickly giving air through a tube that the parachute did not manage to adjoin to the body of the drone and screws. Today Indemnis offers the Nexus system for Inspire 2, and by the end of 2019 is going to start similar for drones of the Matrice 200 and Matrice 600 series — it is specified in the January press release.[1]

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