WORKFLY COMPANY

The objective of Workfly Company is to develop, to market and to operate a civil multifunctional UAV. It acts in two spheres: the research work concerning the improvement of autonomous UAV type flying machines and their marketing.

Legal status

The Workfly Company is a SME, created by Mr. GUILHOT-GAUDEFFROY and his partners in June 2004. It’s located in France, near Paris (Neuilly-sur-Marne). It has a legal status of a Joint-stock company with initial capital of 37.000 €.

Research and Development Unit

Workfly develops an applied research activity aimed on the elaboration of a full range of multifunctional civil UAV. For the moment, the company is specialized in rotary wings and in inverted rotary wings in particular. It possesses professional competences in aeronautics, aeraulics, electronics and informatics. The first machine developed by Workfly is a UAV Eyesfly, destined to the air observation. In comparison with its competitors the main advantage of the machine is that its structure makes the machine totally faired, avoiding the risk of accident, provoked by collusion with rotating blades.

Operating and Services Unit

Workfly has decided to give very early its first prototypes to disposal of clients, interested in aerial activity’s development. As soon as the system’s improvement is completed, these machines will be sold to clients, able to choose the suitable payload. The Operating and Services Unit is responsible for organization of services which will be in charge of practice development as well as of marketing and operating of machines, developed by Research and Development Unit.

Objectives

On the technical front, Workfly is going to make out of this first machine, Eyesfly, the test laboratory of all embedded control systems, as well as a test bed for validation of all aspects connected to complex mechanics of inverted rotary wings. As soon as the machine is declared ready to industrialization, it will pass from unit to serial production. The commercial goal is to attain at the end of 2007 the number of hundred machines in France, shared between multiple operating regional centers, externalizing the company at the European market.