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Industrial and environmental inspection, vendor inspection, technical assistance, non-destructive testing (NDT) and technical staffing for all type of industries.
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Multidisciplinary laboratories.Testing and engineering for product development. Conformity testing and product certification. SYSTEMS CERTIFICATION.
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Statutory vehicle inspection services and emission & gas testing solutions worldwide.
Design, engineering, testing and homologation services for the automotive industry worldwide.
Drones & UAM
With huge variation in design and function and the technology in constant development, testing campaigns for unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems (UAS/RPAS/drones) can be difficult to navigate. Perhaps this is even more the case when human passengers enter the picture, as with the eVTOL aircraft of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) world.
As a strategic and fully accredited partner to the Aerospace industry, we have the multidisciplinary expertise and full-scale facilities to efficiently handle every step of the process, whether in Europe, North America or Asia.
Earlier this year, we became the very first Notified Body for drone certification under EU regulation 2019/945 permitted to certify all the drones and drone kits covered by the regulation.
UAS AND UAM CATEGORISATION AND CERTIFICATION
The EU's 2019 regulatory framework for drones puts them into three categories based on their operations and associated risks: Open Category, Specific Category and Certified Category:
- Intended for recreational purposes (and some commercial activities)
- Operations are always within the Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) and at altitudes less than 120 metres
- Always weigh less than 25kg
- Intended for increased risk flight operations
- Can operate beyond the VLOS (BVLOS) and at altitudes higher than 120 metres
- Intended for high-risk operations, such as transporting people and potentially dangerous cargo
- Usually considered to be larger than Open Category and Specific Category UAS
Open Category drones are divided into 3 sub-categories (A1, A2 and A3) and 5 classes (C0, C1, C2, C3 and C4), each with its specific requirements to achieve CE marking (or the non-European alternative).
C5 and C6 classes, which also have their own specific requirements for CE marking, form part of the Specific Category.
To gain certification, both Open Category drones and those in C5 and C6 must go through a range of compliance tests, performed by an accredited laboratory. For C1, C2 and C3, it mandatory for a Notified Body, like Applus+ Laboratories, to be involved in the evaluation.
Normally, Specific Category drone operators also need to carry out Specific Operation Risk Assessments (SORA), and a set of specific tests, including flight tests, to achieve flight authorization for their intended operations.
Certified Category aircraft, often eVTOL systems of the UAM world, have certification processes closer to those of the (manned) civil aviation domain. Each OEM must reach an agreement with the regulating body (whether EASA for Europe, the American FAA, the Chinese CAAC, or other) regarding the requirements for their specific product, based on its characteristics and functionalities.
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