Delft Dynamics B.V. (DD) is an innovative, high tech company founded in The Netherlands in February 2006. The company is specialized in developing and building robot helicopter systems (drones): small unmanned helicopters that can be used as stable, easy to control sensor-platforms.
DD has provided UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) engineering services to third parties and has developed and manufactured several types of drones (RH2 ‘Stern’, RH3 ‘Swift’, RH4 ‘Spyder’ and DroneCatcher). DD has been involved in many national and international drone and counter-drone (CUAS) research and development projects together with well-known knowledge institutes, universities and industry, e.g.:
DroneCatcher: DroneCatcher is a drone, that is armed with a netgun to catch unwanted drones. With the use of multiple onboard sensors, the netgun can be locked on the target. Thanks to DroneCatcher’s track & trace capabilities, the drone will be caught by shooting a net. After the catch, DroneCatcher can bring the captured drone attached with a cable, in the air to a harmless place.
- Dutch Defence Project U-Drone: In this defence technology project DD develops tethered drones that can be used inside buildings, tunnels, underground passageways, etc. to map the surroundings and find points of interest in a safe and non-jammable way.
- EDF Project DeterMine: The goal is to develop a multisensory and multiplatform solution for the detection of hidden threats such as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines.
- EDF Project E-CUAS: This project aims to develop solutions to counter unmanned aerial systems including technologies such as passive and active sensors, soft kill and hard kill effector technologies and others.