WEFLO, a company specializing in future aviation mobility (AAM) solutions, announced on the 5th that it was selected as one of the '100 Defense Innovation Companies' in 2024, a public offering project of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.
'Defense Innovation Company 100' is a project to discover and foster small and medium-sized venture companies that possess innovative technologies in five major defense cutting-edge strategic industries: space, drones, semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), and robots. Wiplo was selected in the drone sector and will receive up to 5 billion won in government support for five years through a technology development-only project. Through this project, Wiplo will receive comprehensive benefits such as consulting, financial support, R&D support, and export support.
Through this project, Wiplo plans to develop an automated and intelligent smart aircraft inspection system for the power generation of drone systems and lead the innovation of inspection automation in the defense industry. In the future battlefield, cooperation between manned and unmanned systems is expected to play an important role, and drones will become essential elements for performing various missions such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and attack. Accordingly, the power generation of drone systems will be a key task for securing the initiative in the future battlefield.
Wiplo's solution automates and makes drone inspections intelligent by utilizing multi-modal sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It can detect aging and failures in the ▲driving parts ▲structural parts ▲battery parts ▲exterior parts of the drone body in a non-contact manner, and can perform predictive maintenance by predicting the remaining life of each part.
In this project, Wiplo plans to build a body inspection system and system necessary for the power-up of drone weapon systems. It will be deployed in hangars or takeoff fields of each unit that uses drones as weapon systems for surveillance and reconnaissance, strikes, and material transport, and will be applied for education and training and mission performance. It is planned to contribute to the rapid power-up of drone systems by being packaged with maintenance education, manuals, insurance, etc. In addition, it plans to advance the technology into a support system that enables manned and unmanned composite operations by miniaturizing, lightening, and optimizing the technology so that it can be installed on swaying platforms such as ships or tanks.
Weflow is also laying the foundation for smart infrastructure in preparation for the commercialization of future air mobility (AAM) in 2030. Last year, through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s ‘Drone Delivery Commercialization Project,’ it built drone delivery infrastructure in more than 30 local governments nationwide, and also participated in a drone infrastructure construction project for military supplies transport, building infrastructure in two locations.
Kim Ui-jeong, CEO of Wiplo, said, “Fuel safety inspection solutions are becoming increasingly important in the defense industry, and will become as important a task as airframe development. We will advance the automatic airframe inspection system as a key element of drone system power-up to secure the safety and reliability of drones and maximize operational efficiency.”
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