THE ARATOR 5B

Like its previous version (Arator 5A), the Arator is a portable high-technology drone, the market leader, and the most advanced small-sized drone developed in Brazil.

• Lean system: The Arator has 3 parts: the drone itself, a small communication antenna with 10 Km range, and a Ground Control Statio;
• Autopilot developed by XMobots, using a 1GHz ARM SoC, with RTOS QNX;
• Ground Control Station software fully developed by XMobots for flight planning and real-time control of the drone;
• Its software meets the RBAC94 standard, which is the Brazilian standard that defines all the requirements that a drone must meet to fly legally in Brazil.

WHAT I DID

In this project, I acted as the software development leader, with emphasis on the Ground Control Station software. I helped in the creation of Arator monitoring and operating software. 

We developed this software in Java (Swing), C and C++. We used MDD with IBM Rational Rhapsody (UML) and Esterel SCADE. That software fulfills real-time and multi-platform requirements and runs on embedded Linux on ARM platforms.

I also worked in the certification process, analyzing requirements, helping with the definition of strategies to meet these requirements and writing system conformity reports to ANAC.