our value to helicopter consumers
Smart Rotor Systems Inc. is an innovative company with groundbreaking technologies for helicopters that shifts the industry towards new vibration control solutions.
The first-of-its-kind technology, the Active Pitch Link, is capable of reducing vibration by 90% in a fail-safe manner via a piezo-actuator based, electrically-driven pitch link, which will enable helicopters to perform a “jet-smooth” flight.
Such improvement will decrease maintenance costs, generate ~$100,000 in savings for operators per year [estimated on the average flight hours per helicopter per year], improve safety, reliability, comfort and performance of a helicopter, while decreasing associated health risks for passengers and crew.
REDUCTION OF:
90%VIBRATION
90%FAILURE RATE
42%CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE
25%LIFE CYCLE COST
our innovations
Active Pitch Link
The first novel, patented, and only piezoactuator-based, all-electric active pitch link in the world. It offers a reduction of vibration by 90% in a fail-safe manner, and its easy scalability and diverse applicability opens a wide range of applications.
Actively Controlled Flap
The first outboard, high-voltage, closed-loop flow control device that is installed at the 65~85% radius portion of a helicopter blade with a primary role of altering its aerodynamics to reduce vibration and/or noise.
Hybrid Control Concept
The first in the world commercial, novel and patented “Smart Hybrid Active Rotor Control Systems (SHARCS)” for reduction of vibration and noise on helicopters. The unique benefit of this Hybrid Control concept is its ability to reduce both vibration and noise simultaneously by employing two independent SRS control systems.
Analyses & Computer Simulations
SRS offers computational analyses service using its own state-of-the-art aeroelastic software code. Aeroelastic 3D computer simulations of rotor-based technologies (i.e. helicopters, wind turbines, and other rotary wing machines) are imperative in order to assess the feasibility of the system. There are currently no similar commercial products on the market.
Composite Rotor Blades
The scaled composite material helicopter blades are built incorporating exact specifications of original helicopter blades with respect to specific size, weight, stiffness and profile, as well as other custom variables. SRS is the first and only company in Canada with the capability to design, manufacture, assemble, instrument and certify scaled composite material rotor blades.
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our facilities
Smart Rotor Systems Inc., is located at 100 Gloucester Street, in the heart of business centre of Ottawa, surrounded by the shops, restaurants, bars and boutiques. Office has two newly renovated floors, connected by an open staircase that has been thoughtfully divided into large open shared and private workspaces, a professional reception area, meeting rooms and a large open kitchen area with multiple workstations.
Smart Rotor Systems Inc., in collaboration with the Rotorcraft Research Group at Carleton University and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Ottawa has built a state-of-the-art whirl tower test facility. The whirl tower is equipped with 60 HP, 575 V 3-phase, 1,800 RPM motor located in a test chamber with a diameter of 15 ft (4.57 m). It has Armorcore level 3 panels, a glass-fibre based protective panel and it is monitored by live video and live data collection viewed from an isolated control room. The lowest mode’s natural frequency is beyond the nominal RPM of 1,550 to allow continuous testing. The rotor hub houses both a wireless telemetry system with 27 differential and 36 strain gauge channel, as well as an 8-channel slip ring assembly.
Smart Rotor Systems Inc., in collaboration with the Rotorcraft Research Group at Carleton University and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Ottawa has gained access to and established laboratory facilities such as composite material clean room and freezer, autoclave, machine shop, assembly shop, high and low voltage as well as signal analyses areas.
Incubator
Smart Rotor Systems Inc., has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the first Sikorsky Innovations Entrepreneurial Challenge and as a result has been granted access to the Stamford Innovations Center – an incubator for business start-ups, at Stamford, CT, USA.
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