Case Study: Airnamics achieves 10× lower development costs and higher-quality, safer UAS with MathWorks Model-Based Design

Enabling Small Development Teams with Model-Based Design Q&A with Airnamics

Airnamics, based in Medvode, Slovenia, develops advanced unmanned aerial systems for film production, live broadcasts, GIS data capture, and inspections. Facing the challenge of designing a redundant fly-by-wire control system and a flight management system for a 60 kg UAS with a three-engineer team, they hit a development and testing bottleneck after starting with handwritten C and sought a better approach from MathWorks using Model-Based Design.

MathWorks’ Model-Based Design enabled Airnamics to specify system parameters, develop control algorithms, and trace requirements to code with minimal physical prototyping, allowing virtual ground testing of nearly every system element. Using MathWorks’ approach, the team found over 95% of control software bugs before the first flight, reduced bug-finding from weeks to hours, cut development costs roughly tenfold, and delivered a safer, more reliable product that supports certification efforts.

Airnamics

Marko Thaler

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer