A first for the industry! Benewake has passed a number of DO-160G certification tests.
Recently, Benenewake's new generation of aircraft lidar products have passed a number of DO-160G aviation airborne equipment environmental standard tests. As the world's first LiDAR company to participate in the DO-160G certification, the passing of this series of tests marks that Benewake has reached the international leading level in the field of safe flight.
According to the introduction of Benenewke, at present, Benewake has passed a number of projects such as high and low temperature tests, humidity tests, shock resistance tests, vibration tests, waterproof tests, sand and dust tests, salt spray tests, fluid sensitivity tests, radio frequency related tests, etc., proving that Benenewake's new generation of aircraft lidar products have reached the highest American aviation access threshold standards in the current aviation industry, both in terms of design indicators and quality indicators, which is the first time in the lidar industry.
In order to meet the strict needs of DO-160G certification, Benewake has made a lot of efforts: in terms of structure and electronic design, the entire optical system has been comprehensively upgraded compared with the previous generation of products, shortened the optical path, reduced by 1 3 compared with the previous generation of products, and reduced weight by 64%, and the product has been similar to the size of a matchbox; In terms of quality, it meets more than 200 various requirements, realizes the demanding requirements of traceability and 100% monitoring, and the most breakthrough project is EMC electromagnetic certification, which is usually used in the industry to add metal shells, but the high weight of metal shells will cause the weight of the aircraft to increase, affecting the normal use of users. In order to ensure the user's experience, Benewake screened nearly 100 leading companies and finally found a lightweight and EMC certification solution, and in order to verify the availability of materials, it built a special mold and conducted nearly 300 hours of experiments, and finally satisfactorily met the performance requirements.
The lidar tested by Benewake can detect the distance of the target within 180 meters in real time and feed it back to the UAV, so that the UAV can accurately perceive altitude information, so as to adjust the descent speed or flight altitude in time during the descent process or hovering process. Experts say that this test is of great significance for future aircraft commercial applications. In the event of an emergency, it is possible to hover the drone at a safe altitude, prevent the aircraft from falling to the ground and cause a safety accident, and ensure the integrity and safety of the cargo, so that the drone can be used to deliver drugs or other emergency items with confidence. In Europe and other low-altitude ecologically developed areas, emergency delivery can even be achieved within two hours, which is of great significance to the fields of first aid, rescue, and timeliness distribution. Benewake said that the passage of this test is of great significance to enter the vertical take-off and landing spacecraft market of Benewake LiDAR in the future. Aviation-grade lidar can meet the diverse needs of aircraft for low-altitude urban flights in the future, in addition to enabling commercial spacecraft to meet the basic services of urban scenarios such as medical transportation and emergency rescue, and may even provide more possibilities for green travel.
DO-160 is an international standard published by the RTCA (American Aeronautical Radio Technical Committee) that defines the environmental test conditions, applicable test procedures, and evaluation criteria for avionics to determine their performance characteristics. All manufacturers of aerospace products must meet the requirements of this standard. The DO 160 test is recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO-7317), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation regulators around the world as the international standard for assessing the conformity of aircraft equipment. Developed through peer review and collaboration by vetted members of the industry, the current iteration is G.