Competitive strengths

SICANT presents functionalities and characteristics that nowadays are differentiators elements with respect to the flight control systems in the State of the Art. While several of these characteristics can be found in other commercial systems, all of them can hardly be found at once.

• It's a product developed fully at INTA, and therefore it can be adapted to new requirements without external dependencies.
• It is a flight control system with hardware and analytical redundancy, with capabilities in fault detection and isolation.
• It has multiple control modes (automatic, semiautomatic, assited manual and payload related)
• Accurate trajectory guidance, with adaptive control customizable to platform modifications.
• Multiple system integration capabilities.
• Cooperative flight of two or more vehicles from the same Control Station, with DAA functionality.
• Envelope protection system for both sent commands and stall situations.
• Specific definition of customizable maneuvres.
• Complete mission planning, allowing contingency routes for each point in the mission, being fully re-programmable in flight.
• High accuracy ATOL system, and safety mechanisms to abort maneuvre. Automatic taxi.
• HWIL simulators for software validation, and operational and emergency procedures.
• Advanced mission validation system, taking into account all contingency trajectories.
• System adaptable to adverse atmospheric conditions.
• GCS equiped with command validation, geofencing, parachute footprint, gliding distance calculation, and position estimation in case of communication loss.