Shaping the future of advanced
aerial autonomy

WHO ARE WE?

The Autonomous Aerial Lab, located in Abu Dhabi, is an R&D lab with an ambitious vision to accelerate the development of autonomous aerial technologies and create products to be integrated and deployed in key interest sectors in line with the local UAE economy and strategic future government growth plan.

UAVs have the potential to revolutionize many sectors by increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and providing an innovative solution for existing problems related to logistics, agriculture, construction, security, search and rescue, and infrastructure maintenance. The price-performance ratio of processors, sensors, and networking infrastructure, which has dropped significantly over the last decade, has contributed to the rapid transition of these machines from research laboratories to real-world scenarios. UAVs can be a viable and cost-effective solution for autonomous inspection of cluttered, confined, and hazardous remote GPS-denied environments. Autonomous drones have the potential to outperform human pilots in terms of safety, reliability, and mission duration. Nevertheless, UAV technologies have made huge progress in the past decade. General persistent and reliable autonomy everywhere and in all conditions is still a very difficult problem, highlighted by the lack of commercial solutions that tackle many of the challenging application domains (e.g., GPS denied environments, extreme environments, swarm autonomy).

We have created a vibrant ecosystem to address key research and technological challenges. We have developed the appropriate frameworks for technology transfer and research commercialization. The Autonomous Aerial Lab’s goal is to contribute to the growth of the vibrant UAE economy ecosystem by proposing sustainable, cost-effective, and human-friendly solutions, which can be directly integrated and customized for users’ needs.