Facts

• Company: Exyn
• Product type: Autonomous Drone
• Status: legacy

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

A3R is Exyn autonomous aerial 3D mapping system for GPS-denied environments. It can carry out mapping missions without a pilot, prior maps, persistent communications or GPS, using ExynAI for autonomy.

Overview

A3R is Exyn autonomous aerial 3D mapping system for GPS-denied environments. It can carry out mapping missions without a pilot, prior maps, persistent communications or GPS, using ExynAI for autonomy.

Market context

A3R was Exyn's autonomous aerial robot system for GPS-denied industrial data collection and 3D mapping.

• Target environment: Mines, industrial sites, tunnels, infrastructure assets and other environments where GPS, communications or prior maps are unavailable.
• Workflow context: Autonomous flight, 3D mapping, inspection data capture, survey support and exploration of confined or hazardous industrial spaces.
• Customer context: Mining operators, survey teams, inspection groups and industrial asset owners needing unmanned data collection in difficult sites.
• Deployment model: Integrated aerial robot and autonomy package built around ExynAI, Exyn FlightGuide compute and sensing hardware.
• Commercial maturity: Legacy Exyn aerial autonomy system; the product reflects Exyn's earlier hardware-led deployment model before later software and autonomy-stack emphasis.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site safety rules, payload needs, flight endurance, airspace constraints, data workflow fit and support for legacy hardware.
• Market position: GPS-denied aerial mapping platform that helped define Exyn's position in autonomous industrial inspection and survey robotics.
• Adjacent products: ExynAero, ExynAI SDK, Emesent Hovermap, Skydio X10

Audience

Inspectors

Workflow

Autonomous flight, 3D mapping, inspection data capture, survey support and exploration of confined or hazardous industrial spaces.

Capability

Autonomous Drone

Deployment environment

Mines, industrial sites, tunnels, infrastructure assets and other environments where GPS, communications or prior maps are unavailable.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Inspectors
• Workflow: Autonomous flight, 3D mapping, inspection data capture, survey support and exploration of confined or hazardous industrial spaces.
• Capability: Autonomous Drone
• Deployment environment: Mines, industrial sites, tunnels, infrastructure assets and other environments where GPS, communications or prior maps are unavailable.

Specifications

• Form Type: VTOL aerial robot with compute and sensing payload
• Autonomy Stack: ExynAI autonomous flight software
• Sensors Summary: 3D LiDAR, cameras and inertial sensors
• Navigation: GPS-denied autonomous navigation and real-time SLAM
• Task Scope: Autonomous industrial data collection, mapping and inspection
• Operational Environment: Complex, unknown and GPS-denied industrial spaces
• Control Model: Mission input through connected tablet interface with autonomous execution

Timeline / Research

• 2019-01-01 - Deployment - Exyn delivers first A3R units to Dundee Precious Metals - Delivered the first set of Exyn A3R units to Dundee Precious Metals

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• First A3r Units Delivered - first A3R units delivered - 2019-01-01 - Dundee Precious Metals - autonomous mine mapping - Exyn delivered its first A3R units to Dundee Precious Metals.