ABIONICA Solutions and HIONOS works together in UAV Certification - Press Release

Paris / Alicante, January 11, 2021 - Hionos - company specialized in certified flight

controller software solutions for manned and unmanned aircrafts -, signs a

Collaboration Agreement with Abionica Solutions - specialized company in systems

engineering, avionics and UAVs certification support -, to offer to their customers a

unique joint services guaranteeing the success of their UAS projects.

The collaboration between Abionica and Hionos achieves to assist customers in the

entire UAS project life-cycle and covers the specific needs of safety-critical systems

development, both at high and low level, respectively. Those joint services offer to the

customer a unique value proposition that guarantees the optimization of resources

and time, the reliability of proposed solutions, and the success of the project.

Abionica Solutions is an engineering company with proven expertise in systems

engineering, avionics and UAS Certification in the UAV industry. Abionica gained

international overview working on large-scale projects, such as TARGUS OPV - the

biggest drone to obtain the Airworthiness Certification in Spain. Due to its experience

and know-how, the Spanish company will provide services during system definition

and design phases, and certification support for their UAS customers.

Hionos is a French company gathering safety-critical software engineers with sound

experience in DO-178C software development, for avionics and drone industry. Hionos

develops highly reliable software solutions for drones. In this context, Hionos will work

with the customer during prototyping phases; and as long as the project requires it,

they will share their Pulsar Factory framework with Abionica to integrate it into the UAS

development process. Pulsar Factory is a solution which allows the manufacturer to

customize Hionos certified autopilot (Pulsar) to easily integrate specific models, such

as control and command laws of the dedicated drone, to make rapid prototypes and

flight tests.

Abionica and Hionos join forces to work together on the following segments: General

Aviation Avionics, Manned to Unmanned conversions, Certified Category UAVs, and

Air Taxi in Urban Air Mobility context. Both companies share capabilities to make a

joint bit in the development of critical avionics systems for the unmanned aviation

sectors.

Contacts :

Hionos - Amin Elmrabti - amin.elmrabti@hionos.com

ABIONICA Solutions - Cristina Quiñonero Águila - cquinonero@abionica.com