PED - Pegasus Engineering Department

Founded by a team of retired military personnel, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineers, as well as aviation lovers, with over a 100 years of combined experience, we believe that we can truly make a difference in today's fast-moving market and technology advancements.

We are continuously aiming to be the pinnacle of innovation, in software and hardware advancements, providing the customer with a unique and unprecedented approach to design and manufacturing for the right application to our customers' needs and expectations.

We are using the latest software for design and validation tools, and the most advanced manufacturing technologies available. Having always access to the latest technologies, we can assure our clients a fast and accurate turnaround. Additive Manufacturing is extremely helpful in Rapid Prototyping, drastically cutting the time from Concept to Prototype.

In a fast-moving world, with limited access to old-fashioned, large and sophisticated testing equipment, companies today are forced to look at alternatives. For our projects or yours, we have the capability to run extensive computational simulations and scenario analysis, based on available material and design data, thus providing savings.

We are developing the next generation Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence applications and solutions to be implemented and embedded into next-generation systems. Products range from in helmet HUDS to Neural Interface Systems.

For the Government and the Armed Forces, we are developing customized Tactical Systems, enabling today's war-fighter to have an advantage over its adversaries. These systems range from flight suits to ghost deployments, to customized exo suits and loyal soldier systems.

We have the capability to design, test and manufacture Unmanned Aerial Vehicles of any type, ranging from helicopters, to multi-rotors to fixed wings with wingspans ranging from 10 to 50 feet. The UAV's can be gas-powered, electric, multi-fuel and be designed for conventional takeoff and landing or be VTOL. 

Launching and recovery of any Unmanned Systems can be a challenge at times. We are designing and manufacturing compact and robust launch systems for any type of application ranging from simple bungee catapults to pneumatic and even electromagnetic launch systems.

The payload on a UAV is the most important asset, as it is the component providing the necessary data to the customer. We are working with a number of Payload Developers and also have our own custom Payloads we are developing. We integrate Payloads into existing aircraft, UAV's, or design a systems fro the ground up.

We specialize in custom Design and Engineering of UAV components and complete systems. Having the experience, know-how and the power to manufacture components in-house, we are uniquely qualified to deliver a rapid turnaround for custom designed components and systems.

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As manufacturing technology is continuously evolving so is the need for re-thinking traditional design approaches and methodology. 

We do still design and manufacture the old traditional way, however, our focus is shifting towards the additive manufacturing technologies for rapid prototyping and manufacturing.

We offer custom composite solutions for our customers, ranging from full airframe systems to just wings, cowlings, fuel systems, control surfaces and more...

We use professional software to either take your design, or create one for you based on your specifications, then CNC a plug, followed by creating a mold and ultimately the actual part from that mold.

We use high-end composite materials and clean rooms to layup the components, resulting in a clean and professional production-run quality components.

There is no limit on the size of the components.

For the DoD, we are offering custom Target Drone Solutions. Our systems are professionally designed and built, to offer aviators with the most realistic end-to-end weapons release training.

Our systems are designed to be scalable and provide a scalable time-on-station, and increased flight time compared to our competition. The versatile design of our systems, support various mission requirements by accepting a wide array of internal and external payloads, including Scoring (Vector), IFF, Passive Radar Augmentation, EMC, IR Augmentation, Chaff, Flares, Smoke, etc.

Our Target Systms are ITAR Controlled!

We design and build fixed wing UAV's per customer needs and we do so from the ground up.

First we listen to our customer needs and requirements, from there, we select the appropriate components and design the airframe around it, essentially building the aircraft from the inside out.

Doing it so, will significantly speed up the delivery phase, rather than using other airframes, which will have to be changed and often improved upon, in order to facilitate the internal components and client needs.

We have a lineup of systems already designed and proven, from which we can start any custom project for our customers.

As UAV technology ever increases, so does the use cases for these autonomous systems.

We are developing Helicopter UAV technology, which will enable the customer to complete difficult and complex missions with ranges between 50 and 500 miles and endurance between 1 hour on an electric system and up to 6 hours on a gas/hybrid systems.

Our systems use different technologies and methods of propulsion to achieve these remarkable specifications.

While Pegasus is not the first company to develop and offer helicopter UAV technology, we strive to do it better and more affordable than our competitors.

A Multi-Rotor or Multi-Copter is a Rotorcraft with more than one rotor. An advantage of Multi-Rotor Aircraft is the simpler rotor mechanics required for flight control.

Unlike single- and double-rotor helicopters which use complex variable pitch rotors whose pitch varies as the blade rotates for flight stability and control, Multi-Rotors often use fixed-pitch blades; control of vehicle motion is achieved by varying the relative speed of each rotor to change the thrust and torque produced by each.

 Our focus is to design, build and offer Multi-Rotors, which are Ultra-Efficient, by employing advanced design methods and state of the art technologies.

Heavy-Lift UAS Solutions are being requested more and more these days, from all sectors for a variety of different missions and purposes.

It is therefore that we have partnered with Griff Aviation from Norway to bring their UAS lineup to the US market.

Currently still being built in Norway, the plan is to bring production to the US.

Aside from offering the Griff stock models, we have the capability and possibility to customize the Griff Systems to suit customer needs, as well as offer support and training for these systems, offered here locally in the United States.

In order for any Unmanned System to properly function it requires a custom and dedicated Ground Control System. Not all systems are inter-exchangeable with all Unmanned Systems. 

It is therefore that we are developing custom Ground Control Systems for our fleet and or any other UA Systems currently available.

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The Ground Control Solutions we are manufacturing and offering, range from small, briefcase size, to a full Mission-Control style control suites.

These systems are tailored to the UAV system purchased and custom tailored to the client's requirements and specifications.

Having, and operating a single UAV or a fleet of UAVs, even under most favorable conditions, these systems require to be maintained and updated, from time to time. Every UAV manufacturer should have a scheduled maintenance recommendation for their systems.

Not all manufacturers offer maintenance services on their systems. On the contrary, far from it. Most UAV systems sold, do not come with a maintenance service at the time of purchase, leaving the end-user on its own, to navigate the uncertainties.

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Our engineers are extremely knowledgeable and are certified, further giving you a piece of mind that the performed work is done according to regulations and using genuine parts.

We are testing new technologies as well as customer's own systems. The use of UAV's is starting to take off in Commercial and Government sectors. The potential applications of UAVs are many – including survey, mapping, media reporting, delivery, reconnaissance, conservation, and search & rescue. What's more, in some cases the cost of using UAVs has been found to be up to 98% cheaper than manned aircraft.

But it is still early days, and for Designers and Developers of UAV's, there are many challenges in bringing viable models to market and safely putting them to work.

We look at those challenges and set out the main positioning and navigation considerations that our UAV test teams should incorporate into their test regime, such as:

• Safe UAS integration into NAS
• Which environmental/external factors need to be considered, such as wind, temperature, and multi-path effects.
• Compliance considerations
• Flight-test evaluation of sensor fusion algorithms for attitude estimation
• Autopilot integration and testing
• Robust PID controller design for UAV flight control systems
• HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) tuning of UAV for exploration of risky environments
• Guidance and control of autonomous soaring vehicles with flight test results
• Flutter tests
• Flight evaluation of new and experimental airframes

Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that reside in the real-world are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory. 

The overlaid sensory information can be constructive by as adding to the natural environment or destructive by masking the natural environment and is seamlessly interwoven with the physical world such that it is perceived as an immersive aspect of the real environment.

In this way, augmented reality alters one’s ongoing perception of a real-world environment, whereas virtual reality completely replaces the user's real-world environment with a simulated one. Augmented reality is related to two largely synonymous terms: mixed reality and computer-mediated reality.

The primary value of augmented reality is that it brings components of the digital world into a person's perception of the real world, and does so not as a simple display of data, but through the integration of immersive sensations that are perceived as natural parts of an environment. 

Artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes also called Machine Intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science, AI research is defined as the study of "Intelligent Agents" any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem-solving".

The scope of AI is disputed as machines become increasingly capable, tasks considered as requiring "intelligence" are often removed from the definition, a phenomenon known as the AI effect, leading to the quip, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

For instance, optical character recognition is frequently excluded from "Artificial Intelligence", has become a routine technology.

 Capabilities generally classified as AI as of 2017 include successfully understanding human speech, competing at the highest level in strategic game systems, autonomous cars, intelligent routing in content delivery network and military simulations.

As technology is ever evolving, we are currently heavily invested in the research of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Neural Networks.