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Area-I’s objective is to be the leader in avant-garde solutions for small manned and unmanned aircraft that enhance capabilities and push performance into new realms.

Leadership Statement

Area-I was founded with the vision of producing innovative aerodynamic and autonomy-related technologies. By performing avant-garde research and technology development in areas of advanced aerodynamics, guidance systems, simulation, and sensor technologies, we aim to leverage our expertise to provide our customers with practical products and solutions that enhance the capability and performance of their unmanned aircraft system.

Products

AI.MAESTRO The AI.MAESTRO flight computer is a small, light-weight, flight computer designed to interface with commercial autopilots. In addition to the ability to augment autopilots, the flight computer can be used as a flight data recorder for flight testing, as an image processing unit, and for other applications.

RECHARGE Originally developed under a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) award from the Office of Naval Research, Area-I’s Reactive Controller for Harvesting Gust Energy (RECHARGE) enables fixed-wing UAS to increase survivability in a wide range of atmospheric conditions as well as giving the UAS the ability to take advantage of those environmental conditions to increase endurance. The RECHARGE system accomplishes this by providing increased awareness of the wind field through which the aircraft is flying and by implementing gust energy harvesting capabilities. The system decreases energy requirements when flying within windy environments and thus increases endurance and range over a wide array of mission profiles. The RECHARGE system can also be used to detect and mitigate the influences of severe gust-induced loads, thus increasing the ability to maintain control and prevent structural damage in volatile winds.

Services

The Area-I team has extensive experience with UAS design & fabrication and is available for consulting for technology development. `` Aerodynamic Analysis ÌÌComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): CFL3D, OVERLOW, Fluent, Lattice-Boltzmann ÌÌAircraft performance & stability analysis `` Flight Simulation ÌÌ6-DoF, 4th-order Runge-Kutta integration, quaternion transformations ÌÌFully customizable (not limited to aircraft) ÌÌAtmospheric modeling (winds, turbulence) ÌÌPropulsion modeling (IC, electric motor, propeller analysis) ÌÌActuator dynamics and sensor modeling ÌÌNon-linear (post-stall) modeling ÌÌCapable of modeling multiple bodies `` Parameterized CAD Modeling ÌÌMulti-disciplinary optimization ÌÌMass/Inertial analysis ÌÌStructural analysis

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Core Competencies `` Advanced Aerodynamics `` Guidance Systems `` Simulation `` Sensor Technologies `` Tooling & Fabrication `` Flight Testing

Markets & Customers

Area-I is actively engaged in the small UAS market and is currently engaged in research programs with NASA, ONR, and AFRL.

Profile

Area-I’s technical team has a vast amount of experience (spanning 16 years and over 25 flight test programs) in a full spectrum of autonomous aircraft development activities, from conception through flight-testing of advanced GN&C systems, airframes, sensor suites, flight control hardware/software, and ground station systems. Co-founded in 2008 by Dr. Nicholas Alley, Area-I is actively engaged in UAS research & development.

Dr. Alley has extensive experience in flight mechanics, simulation, and unmanned aircraft design and operation. He also has extensive experience in flight simulation and the development of tools that quickly and accurately predict the performance of aircraft. Dr. Alley has been involved in the design and construction of ten UAS and one manned aircraft.

Core Advantages

Area-I offers low-cost flight test platforms, collision avoidance systems, and highly capable flight computing and data acquisition systems. The company facility maintains a shop and laboratory space that is used for electronics development, testing, and has composite fabrication and machining capabilities.

Area-I is a corporate member of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). Area-I employees are active members of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the American Physical Society (APS).

Contact

Dr. Nicholas Alley Chief Executive Officer P (678) 594-5227 F (678) 594-5228 nalley@areai.aero Area-I 1590 N. Roberts Rd., Suite 203 Kennesaw, GA 30144