The Flyability Elios 3 Visual Inspection Package is built around a collision-tolerant indoor inspection drone designed for confined, cluttered, dark, dusty, and GPS-denied environments. The Elios 3 uses LiDAR, VIO cameras, and SLAM algorithms to map its surroundings while tracking its position, with a real-time 3D point cloud map in the Cockpit App displaying the drone position, trajectory, and captured points of interest. Its built-in visual inspection payload combines a 4K camera, radiometric thermal camera, and multiple lighting modes for detailed inspection data collection.
The Elios 3 supports indoor visual inspection and asset documentation in environments where conventional access can be difficult, including confined and enclosed industrial spaces. Visual and thermal data can be used to identify surface conditions such as pitting, cracks, build-ups, hotspots, and heat patterns. Flyability Inspector software maps captured inspection data and points of interest onto a 3D model of the asset for review, localization, analysis, and reporting.
SLAM-Based Stabilization
The Elios 3 uses SLAM-based LiDAR and VIO camera stabilization. An onboard algorithm continuously detects and corrects aircraft movement to support stable flight in confined and GPS-denied environments, including dusty conditions.
Real-Time 3D Map
During flight, the Cockpit App displays the camera feed alongside a real-time, high-density point cloud map. The 3D view shows the inspected area, drone position, flight trajectory, and captured points of interest, providing spatial context while operating in enclosed environments.
Modular Inspection Platform
The Elios 3 includes a built-in visual inspection payload and supports additional plug-and-play payloads for other inspection requirements. Flyability currently offers separate Surveying, ultrasonic thickness measurement, and radiation payloads for the Elios 3 platform.
Collision-Tolerant Design
The Elios 3 uses Flyability's patented collision-tolerant technology, combining a protective carbon cage, specialized flight controller, and propeller reversal technology. The design allows the aircraft to recover from flips without crashing and supports operation in confined and cluttered environments.
Built-In Visual Inspection Payload
The Elios 3 includes a built-in visual inspection payload combining a 4K camera, radiometric thermal camera, and integrated lighting system. The visual camera uses a 12.3 MP 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor, records 4K video at 30 fps, and provides GSD down to 0.18 mm/pixel. The camera pod provides a 180° tiltable field of view for inspecting surfaces around the aircraft.
4K Visual Imaging
The Elios 3 visual inspection camera uses a 12.3 MP 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor and records 4K video at 30 fps. Flyability specifies GSD resolution down to 0.18 mm/pixel, supporting close-range documentation of visual asset conditions.
Radiometric Thermal Imaging
The integrated radiometric thermal camera uses a FLIR Lepton 3.5 sensor with 160 × 120 resolution, 9 fps frame rate, and thermal sensitivity of ≤50 mK. Flyability specifies measurement accuracy starting from ±5°C or ±5%.
Inspection Lighting
The integrated lighting system provides 16,000 lumens and supports Normal, dustproof, and oblique lighting modes. Oblique lighting helps reveal surface irregularities including pitting, cracks, and build-ups, while dustproof lighting reduces glare for improved visibility in dusty environments.
Inspector Software
Flyability Inspector is the companion software for Elios inspection data. Data and points of interest captured during Elios 3 flights are mapped onto a 3D model of the inspected asset, allowing users to visualize, localize, analyze, organize, and report inspection findings.
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Elios 3 Visual Inspection Key Features:
- Collision-tolerant indoor inspection drone
- Designed for confined-space and GPS-denied flight
- SLAM-based LiDAR and VIO camera stabilization
- Real-time 3D point cloud map in the Cockpit App
- Drone position, trajectory, and captured POIs displayed within the 3D map
- Built-in visual inspection payload
- Built-in 4K visual and radiometric thermal imaging
- Normal, dustproof, and oblique lighting modes
- Protective carbon cage
- Automatic return to signal following signal or video loss
- Modular platform supporting optional Surveying, UT, RAD, and Flammable Gas Sensor payloads
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ELIOS 3 Visual Inspection Payload Key Features:
- 12.3 MP 1/2.3-inch CMOS visual camera sensor
- 4K video recording at 30 fps
- GSD resolution down to 0.18 mm/pixel
- 2.71 mm focal length
- 180° tiltable camera pod
- FLIR Lepton 3.5 radiometric thermal sensor
- 160 × 120 thermal resolution
- 9 fps thermal frame rate
- Thermal sensitivity of ≤50 mK
- Thermal measurement accuracy starting from ±5°C or ±5%
- 16,000-lumen lighting system
- Normal lighting mode
- Dustproof lighting mode
- Oblique lighting mode
- 4K video, 12 MP photos, and thermal imagery data output
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Qty 1- Elios 3 Aircraft
Qty 1- Built in visual inspection payload
Qty 1- Controller with USB-C output
Qty 1- Tablet
Qty 1- Protective shipping case
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