Sensata Technologies Unveils Innovative Digital Inceptor for AAM and UAM Applications at NBAA BACE 2024
- The lightweight, modular Digital Inceptor is designed to meet the evolving needs of advanced air mobility (AAM) and urban air mobility (UAM) markets.
- Sensata’s Inceptor features a compact multi-axis design with advanced RVDT sensor technology, offering flexible signal outputs, high reliability and options for redundant sensors, ensuring safe, seamless integration into aircraft structures.
- The Digital Inceptor is part of Sensata’s broader cockpit control portfolio, designed for a range of applications including air taxis and cargo delivery, supporting mission profiles for modern air mobility. Visit Sensata’s Booth 2258 at NBAA BACE 2024 for a demo.
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Sensata’s Digital Inceptor features a compact design that integrates seamlessly into aircraft structures, offering single-axis to four-axis control. Its weight-optimized, three-axis models weigh less than 3.175 kilograms (7 pounds) and includes single-point of failure mitigation features for enhanced reliability.
“eVTOL operation optimization relies heavily on weight reduction to conserve power during all phases of flight that results in increased range,” explains
The design incorporates redundant load paths and jam-resistant features across all axes, ensuring safe operation at both the sensor and mechanism levels. With flexible signal outputs available in either analog or digital formats, the Inceptor also includes precise, high-reliability RVDT sensors for non-contact position sensing with fault tolerance. Additionally, it offers options for redundant sensors with three channels or upgrades to quad-redundant sensors per axis. The product's signal conditioning electronics offer direct analog outputs or the customer's preferred digital protocol—whether ARINC 825 CAN bus, ARINC 429, SPI, UART, or others. The component architecture is designed for maximum flexibility, allowing customer-specific variations, and enabling the production of a wide range of products in a short time.
Sensata’s Digital Inceptor has successfully completed rigorous RTCA/DO-160 EMI testing, including Lightning Induced Transient Susceptibility, RF Susceptibility, RF Emissions, and Power Input, and has demonstrated the robustness required to comply with aerospace standards. The design architecture has been developed to withstand the rigor at the highest design assurance levels per RTCA/DO-178C to ensure the flight control systems are able to operate safely and reliably.
With the introduction of digital conditioning electronics and software, Sensata has expanded its ability to seamlessly integrate the Digital Inceptor into its cockpit control portfolio. "We are committed to shaping the future of advanced air mobility and believe the weight and complexity reductions achieved through digital applications will be increasingly important to facilitate electrification adoption in aerospace and beyond,” shares
Visit Sensata at NBAA-BACE 2024 in Booth 2258 to explore its Digital Inceptor and other cutting-edge products designed to support infrastructure and mission profiles for advanced air mobility (AAM), urban air mobility (UAM), air taxis, and middle/last-mile cargo delivery.
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