Facts

• Company: ACSL
• Product type: UAV
• Status: active
• Website: https://product.acsl.co.jp/en/product/post-1526/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

PF2-AE is ACSL's medium-size industrial UAV family for delivery, inspection, disaster-relief and patrol missions. Variants share a common airframe with LTE communications, marker landing support and mission-specific payload options.

Overview

PF2-AE is ACSL's medium-size industrial UAV family for delivery, inspection, disaster-relief and patrol missions. Variants share a common airframe with LTE communications, marker landing support and mission-specific payload options.

Market context

PF2-AE is ACSL medium-sized industrial UAV family for delivery, infrastructure inspection, disaster relief and patrol missions.

• Target environment: Outdoor industrial sites and enterprise field environments.
• Workflow context: Industrial inspection, delivery, disaster relief and patrol using a medium-sized industrial UAV platform.
• Customer context: Enterprise operators and government agencies needing non-Chinese industrial UAV supply.
• Deployment model: Commercial UAV from a Japanese manufacturer.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available industrial UAV with Japanese government and enterprise adoption.
• Adoption constraints: Regulatory approval for UAV operations varies by region and mission type.
• Market position: ACSL heavier industrial drone family for practical logistics and inspection use cases.
• Adjacent products: AirTruck, ACSL UAV family

Audience

Inspectors

Workflow

Industrial inspection, delivery, disaster relief and patrol using a medium-sized industrial UAV platform.

Capability

Autonomous navigation

Deployment environment

Outdoor industrial sites and enterprise field environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Inspectors
• Workflow: Industrial inspection, delivery, disaster relief and patrol using a medium-sized industrial UAV platform.
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment environment: Outdoor industrial sites and enterprise field environments.

Specifications

• Overall Length: 1173 mm
• Height To Top Cover: 526 mm
• Max Airspeed: 20 m/s
• Delivery Variant Weight: 8.1 kg
• Delivery Max Payload: 1.5 kg
• Delivery Flight Time: 15 min
• Inspection Variant Weight: 8.9 kg
• Inspection Flight Time: 22 min
• Disaster Relief Weight: 8.1 kg
• Disaster Relief Flight Time: 22 min
• Features: Remote ID module, TAKEOFF application, LTE comms (Delivery variant), marker landing
• Variants: Delivery, Inspection, Disaster-Relief/Patrol
• Communication: LTE communication supported as standard on PF2-AE Delivery and optional on other variants
• Payload Options: Delivery, inspection and disaster-relief/patrol variants with logistics, camera/survey and patrol payload workflows
• Market Availability: PF2-AE line announced for orders with three application-specific variants

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial mapping drone
• Workflow: Industrial inspection
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment Environment: Outdoor field environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2023-07-19 - Product Launch - ACSL begins orders for PF2-AE Survey with YellowScan LiDAR - ACSL began taking orders for PF2-AE Survey, a laser-surveying configuration of the PF2-AE industrial drone family.

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