Operating environments: Tanks, mines, sewers, power-generation assets, chemical plants, maritime spaces and other confined or GPS-denied industrial environments., Indoor, Confined Space
Control modes: Slam Stabilization, Return To Signal
GNSS-denied navigation - Customer-site use - Flyability documents AGL Energy using two Elios 3 drones for regular internal inspections, centimetre-accurate LiDAR scans and 3D models at power-generation sites, including confined and GNSS-denied spaces under remote-pilot control. - Control: unspecified - source: flyability.com
GNSS-denied navigation - Claimed - 2026-09-09 - Elios 3 already uses Ouster OS0 lidar for mapping, localisation, flight stability and collision avoidance in GPS-denied or dark spaces. - source: ouster.gcs-web.com
GNSS-denied navigation - Claimed - 2022-05-19 - Flyability launched Elios 3 as a collision-tolerant indoor LiDAR drone for inaccessible and GPS-denied environments. - source: flyability.com
Robotic inspection - Customer-site use - Flyability documents AGL Energy using two Elios 3 drones for regular internal inspections, centimetre-accurate LiDAR scans and 3D models at power-generation sites, including confined and GNSS-denied spaces under remote-pilot control. - Control: unspecified - source: flyability.com
Aerial LiDAR surveying - Customer-site use - Flyability documents AGL Energy using two Elios 3 drones for regular internal inspections, centimetre-accurate LiDAR scans and 3D models at power-generation sites, including confined and GNSS-denied spaces under remote-pilot control. - Control: unspecified - source: flyability.com
Contact and NDT inspection - Research demonstration - 2026-03-04 - The work presents a control and software architecture for autonomous contact-based ultrasound inspection using a commercial quadrotor. - source: arxiv.org
Inspection - Claimed - 2025-09-15 - Flyability launches Elios 3 Tether Power Unit for extended industrial inspections - source: etfpartners.capital