UAV Testing
UAV Testing Platforms
A UAV that performs correctly in software simulation can still fail once real payload weight, RF interference, and airframe vibration are involved. Our UAV testing platforms exist to close that gap.
Hardware-in-the-loop, not software-only
Our UAV testing platforms pair physical flight controllers, payload hardware, and communications links with synthetic flight and sensor data, so the hardware is genuinely under test — not just the software model of it. That distinction matters most at the edges: how a flight controller responds once true payload weight and center-of-gravity shift are introduced, how a comms link actually degrades with distance and terrain, how a sensor payload behaves under real vibration.
Results from these rigs feed two places: back to your engineering team as structured failure reports, and — where relevant — into the calibrated physics and sensor models behind Zone of War, our UAV simulation platform.
What gets tested
Typical engagements cover flight controller integration and failsafe behavior, payload mounting and power draw under sustained operation, RF and telemetry link performance across distance and interference profiles, and edge-case scenarios — GPS loss, link loss, low-battery return-to-home behavior — that are difficult and expensive to test safely in open airspace.
Flight controller validation
Integration and failsafe testing under real payload and power conditions.
RF & telemetry testing
Comms link performance testing across distance, terrain, and interference.
Edge-case simulation
GPS loss, link loss, and failure-mode testing without open-airspace risk.