Intel® Falcon™ 8+ drone

The Intel Falcon™ 8+ UAS is an advanced commercial multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for professional use across oil & gas, construction, utilities and agriculture.  Some key advantages include:

  • Best weight-to-payload ratio
  • Captures detailed aerial data for 3D reconstruction down to millimeter accuracy.
  • Can be programmed to fly an automated path, capturing photos at predetermined waypoint locations.
  • Equipped with triple redundant autopilot, providing remarkable stability, compensating for external factors such as strong winds and offering resistance to electromagnetic fields.

This helps ensure high reliability in the field, efficient flights, and precise data with every flight.

UL 3030 electrical system safety certifications for Intel® Falcon 8+

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The Intel® Falcon™ 8+ System

Product brief

Intel® Falcon™ 8+ drone

Intel® Cockpit Controller

Intel® Imaging Payload with Obstacle Avoidance

Equipped with Intel® RealSense™ technology, this payload supports obstacle avoidance capabilities to enhance safety and helps to optimize flight performance and precision for your commercial surveying and inspection missions. The payload features the 20MP Sony R10C* camera with an APS-C sensor which is capable of high quality image capture even in a variety of difficult lighting conditions. Time-stamped and geo-tagged information is automatically saved for each image, for easier data management. The payload is compatible with several lens options.

Intel® High Resolution Imaging Payload

The Intel® High Resolution Imaging Payload features the 42MP Sony RX1R II* and captures stunning image detail and clarity. This payload supports the creation of highly precise 2D & 3D visualizations utilizing a 35-mm full frame sensor, ZEISS T* lens and Bionz-X* image processor.

 

 

 

Inspection Payload

The Inspection Payload simultaneously delivers real-color, time-stamped, and georeferenced RGB and 14 bit RAW thermal images. It consists of two cameras mounted in parallel on one gimbal, a full sensor RGB camera and the FLIR Tau 2 640 camera

Sony Alpha 7R*

The Sony Alpha 7R* is a full- frame photo camera with an image resolution of 36 MP, which allows it to display even the finest details.  It features 36 MP ISO 100-25.600,

a 35 mm full frame sensor and no optical low pass filter.

Designed for professional inspection and surveying

Advanced Flight Performance

The Intel® Falcon™ 8+ drone is designed to provide consistent, stable flights in the face of external influences like weak GPS signals and high winds as well as providing resistance to magnetic field disturbances. Lightweight with best weight-to-payload ratio for efficient flights, it allows you to collect incredibly accurate, high-quality, geo-referenced, actionable data, while operating in challenging environments.

Precision Data

With professional payload options the Intel® Falcon™ 8+ drone can provide detailed data for orthography and 3D reconstruction, with millimeter accuracy for ground sample distance (GSD). The unique, patented V-shaped design helps ensure unobstructed data capture and enables a greater than 180 degree view from top to bottom for a range of perspectives, from one camera, in one flight. And for data privacy, the Falcon 8+ system can be configured as a closed system with isolated, on-board data storage that does not transmit data over the public internet.

Best-in-Class Safety

The Intel® Falcon™ 8+ UAV is designed for superior safety with maximum electronic and hardware system redundancy. The AscTec Trinity Control Unit provides three redundant IMUs, for quick and reliable data fusion which verifies and controls the drone’s position, altitude, and orientation, for better responsiveness and stability during flights. It also features additional redundancies for communications, batteries, rotors, and motors.

Ready to Travel

Rugged for commercial jobs but compact for ultimate mobility, the Intel® Falcon™ 8+ system features high quality industrial design for professional use. Payloads are easily exchangeable in the field, and Intel® Powerpack batteries are designed for portability on airline flights.

Complex Flight Planning

AscTec Navigator flight-planning software enables high-area output. Prepare complex waypoint missions on your laptop to automate survey flights.

Quick Survey

This tool supports a fast and automated survey flight without a laptop. Simply enter the required parameters such as ground sample distance, then define coordinates of start and final angle via Intel® Cockpit Controller; the Intel® Falcon™ 8+ drone will automatically set flight altitude, speed, GPS-based photo positions and overlapping to provide the desired results within the shortest flight time.

Path Planning with Exact Waypoints

WP/Path function creates an exact reproduction of aerial imaging. Several photo positions, including camera orientation, can be saved as single waypoints or as complex paths with many waypoints, thus providing an automated process to repeat the flight.

Circle of Interest (COI)

The Circle of Interest (COI) function generates a circular waypoint flight to enable the systematic capturing of images around the point of interest according to your setting

FALCON 8+ BRIDGE INSPECTION

FALCON 8+ CAPTURES DATA FOR 3D MODELS