At Industrial Flight and Magic, we've engineered cutting-edge autorouting technology specifically designed to redefine the urban delivery landscape. Our innovative autorouters, some proprietary, some of which are patent-pending, excel in navigating the complexities of urban environments by operating beyond traditional grid systems. They seamlessly integrate all four trajectory dimensions—X, Y, Z, and Time—along with a crucial fifth dimension, the Avoidance Limit.

Advanced Autorouting for Seamless Urban Drone Deliveries

The Avoidance Limit

The Avoidance Limit (AL) is a cornerstone of our innovative approach to ensuring the safety and efficiency of urban drone deliveries. The AL is a dynamic virtual buffer that encapsulates our delivery drones, designed to adapt in real-time to the complex environments they navigate.

Features of the Avoidance Limit:

Dynamic Spatial Buffer: The AL can be visualized as a protective sphere around the drone, precisely where it needs to be along its planned trajectory. This buffer provides the drone with a safe zone to maneuver freely, reducing the risk of collisions.

Flexible Shape and Size: While fundamentally spherical, the AL's shape can extend into a tube or corridor-like form, particularly when considering the dimension of time. This flexibility allows for adjustments based on the drone's speed, direction, and the specific requirements of its flight path.

Time-Variable Radius: The radius of the AL is not fixed; it can expand or contract based on various factors, including the drone's velocity, environmental conditions, and the proximity of potential obstacles. This variability ensures that the drone maintains a safe distance from other objects, vehicles, and unforeseen hazards at all times and can DAA Maneuver when the unexpected occurs.

Adaptive Maneuverability: Traditional trajectory systems often lock drones into rigid paths, limiting their ability to respond to unexpected challenges. The AL addresses this by allowing drones to adapt their course within the defined buffer zone, ensuring that they can make real-time adjustments without jeopardizing the mission or the safety of other airspace users.

The Avoidance Limit is a testament to our commitment to advancing drone technology, offering a solution that balances precision navigation with the need for spontaneous adaptability. By integrating the AL into our drone delivery systems, Industrial Flight and Magic ensures that each delivery is not only efficient but also operates within a framework that prioritizes safety and flexibility, setting a new standard for urban drone operations.

Sophisticated Autorouting: The Heart of Industrial Flight and Magic

1000 Deconflicted Routes per Square Mile

Standard Trajectories

High Speed and High Complexity Routing

At the core of Industrial Flight and Magic's drone delivery system lies our advanced autorouting technology, a true embodiment of the "Magic" in our name. Our autorouting system is ingeniously designed to navigate urban landscapes, ensuring efficient, safe, and precise delivery paths from kiosks to distribution centers and between kiosks themselves.

Tailored Routing Solutions:

Versatile Autorouters: We employ three distinct autorouters (more are on the way), each selected based on the specific needs of the delivery mission, the type of vehicle in use, and prevailing environmental conditions. This flexibility allows us to adapt our routing strategies for each flight in real-time, ensuring optimal delivery routes under any circumstances.

Obstacle Navigation: One of our autorouters specializes in maneuvering through urban environments filled with dense obstacles, such as buildings, alleys, and other trajectories. It calculates the shortest possible path, effectively "snaking" through complex urban terrains to expedite delivery times.

Street-Based Routing: Another autorouter is designed to follow city streets, ideal for areas with less dense obstacles. It strategically exits and enters distribution center areas, which are connected to others via dedicated flight corridors, ensuring smooth transitions between different urban zones.

Flight Corridors and High-Density Clusters: Our system establishes flight corridors as interconnected webs that link subregions of the delivery area, facilitating streamlined drone traffic across the city. A third autorouter excels in managing deliveries within high-density clusters, capable of generating up to 1000 deconflicted routes per square mile. This router adeptly handles complex cost functions, optimizing delivery efficiency and safety.

Advantages of Industrial Flight and Magic's Autorouting:

Enhanced Efficiency: By leveraging specialized autorouters, we ensure that each drone follows the most efficient route possible, significantly reducing delivery times and operational costs.

Increased Safety: Our autorouting technology prioritizes safety, using dynamic flight paths that avoid collisions and ensure drones remain within designated flight corridors.

Scalability: The ability to generate thousands of deconflicted routes within densely populated urban areas demonstrates the scalability of our system, making it a viable solution for cities worldwide.

Adaptability: The system's flexibility to adapt to various environmental conditions and urban layouts ensures reliable delivery service under a wide range of scenarios.

Industrial Flight and Magic's autorouting technology represents a pivotal advancement in urban drone delivery, combining efficiency, safety, and adaptability. Our commitment to innovation is evident in the sophistication of our routing algorithms, setting a new standard for the future of drone deliveries in urban environments.

Interconnected Flight Corridor System

Automated Takeoff and Landing: Optimizing High-Density Drone Operations

Takeoff and Landing Control

Distribution Centers

Industrial Flight and Magic (IFM) elevates urban drone delivery with our sophisticated automated takeoff and landing system, designed to streamline operations in high-density areas such as distribution centers. Recognizing the complexity of managing a large fleet of drones, especially where space is at a premium, IFM's system is engineered to handle the intricacies of dense operational zones with precision and efficiency.

Adaptive Design: Our system is not one-size-fits-all; it is meticulously tailored to fit the unique specifications of each distribution center. Whether adapting existing facilities or creating new ones, the system considers the size of the area, layout, placement of buildings, storage areas, and takeoff/landing pads, as well as any altitude restrictions.

Graph-Based Area Representation: By generating a graph-based model of the Area of Control (AOC), our system intelligently navigates drones through the complex environment of distribution centers, ensuring efficient routing from takeoff to landing.

Enhanced Operational Efficiency:

Simultaneous Flight Management: The automated takeoff and landing system is capable of managing both incoming and outgoing flights concurrently. This ensures each drone is either securely guided to a landing pad or directed towards its next automated trajectory seamlessly.

Intersection Deconfliction: In areas where flight corridors intersect, the system provides precise guidance to each vehicle, ensuring safe passage through these critical points without interference.

Comprehensive Vehicle Movement: Beyond takeoff and landing, the system facilitates the movement of drones throughout the distribution center environment. This includes transferring vehicles between kiosks, buildings, maintenance bays, taxiways, storage areas, and ultimately to their designated takeoff and landing spots.

Benefits of IFM's Automated System:

Scalability for Profitability: Our solution addresses one of the key challenges in drone delivery: scalability. By automating the most complex aspects of drone operations, IFM's system supports the expansion of delivery networks without proportional increases in labor or operational costs.

Labor and Cost Efficiency: By significantly reducing the need for manual intervention in drone routing and handling, the system contributes to a more cost-effective and labor-efficient operation. This automation is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge in the fast-evolving landscape of urban drone delivery.

Industrial Flight and Magic's automated takeoff and landing system represents a leap forward in the logistics of drone delivery, offering unparalleled control and efficiency in high-density operational environments. This innovation not only enhances the safety and reliability of drone operations but also lays the groundwork for the future of urban logistics, where drones play a central role in delivering speed, efficiency, and scalability.

Customizable Control System

The following video shows the efficiency and efficacy of the takeoff and landing system. This is a group of nine takeoff and landing pads on a medical facility rooftop simultaneously handing incoming and outgoing traffic.