EDEX 2021 | 29 November - 02 December | ECA GROUP Robotic solutions

Join ECA GROUP experts at EDEX 2021, Booth H2-A28

ECA GROUP will be happy to welcome you on its booth H2-A28 taking place at New Cairo Exhibition Centre in Egypt. ECA Group team will introduce you to its Defence & Security range of unmanned robotic solutions for applications at Sea, on Land and in the Air, dedicated to Mine warfare, EOD & IED. Visit Event Official web site

ECA GROUP solutions to be presented at EDEX 2021

Robotics and integrated systems

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)

ECA GROUP offers a wide range of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) allowing to conduct EOD & IIED missions in restrictive areas.  ECA GROUP's ground robots can be used by both military and civil forces to perform the the following missions:

• IEDD/EOD, inspection,
• demining
• trap removal operations.

ECA GROUP's land robotic systems are designed to reduce human exposure to danger while being easy to deploy in no time.

ECA GROUP range of Unmanned Ground vehicle il composed of:

• Three medium size ECA GROUP UGV specifically designed for EOD/IEDD intervention that will help you perform missions in any demanding, confined or hard to reach environment: Cameleon E, Cameleon LG E & Iguana E. These mobile and resistant robots usies a user-friendly plug-and-play system to equip a wide range of different payloads: manipulator arm, X-RAY systems, disruptors, laser, etc. These UGV are used by military and civil security forces thanks to their performance in terms of detection, analysis and manipulation.
• Mini combat-proven UGVs for EOD and IEDD: COBRA MK2 E. This solution has been designed to answer the requirements of Land Forces to conduct operations on suspect objects. These robots are increasingly deployed on field to cope with multifaceted threats. Its modular architecture and quick deployment capability allows to easily equip different sets of payload from detection to neutralisation and various water disruptors.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

To support operation perform by UGVs, ECA GROUP is committed to develop efficient Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to support OED / IIED operations by providing radio relay or real-time direct view of the intervention as part of a collaborative scenario with UGVs.

ECA GROUP UAVS re designed to perform a wide range of missions ranging from surveillance to inspection. Its very stable contra-rotative designs provides a high quality of image and its 5kg payload capability enable to equip a wide range of sensors for operations such as intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and recognition (ISTAR) or electronic intelligence.

ECA GROUP IT180 UAV solutions exists in both autonomous and in a tethered mode for permanent missions. These UAV solutions are combat-proven and in service within several armies throughout the world, including the French Army. 

Maritime Robotics / Unmanned / Naval Drones solutions

In the naval field, ECA GROUP offers a wide range of innovative and comprehensive technological solutions to face current and future challenges. Constantly innovating to improve the capabilities and performance of its systems, ECA GROUP supports the Naval Forces to carry out ever more complex missions in hostile or restrictive environments.

ECA GROUP offers a whole range of naval drones and systems that are optimized to successfully perform a operation at sea in various activities such as Underwater Mine Counter Measures, counter-piracy, harbour or asset protection.

UMIS^TM – MCM turnkey solution

More specifically for underwater Mine counter measures, ECA GROUP has been developing mission driven interoperable systems capable of tackling the most demanding Mine Warfare missions.

Developed by ECA GROUP, UMIS^TM is the new generation Mine Counter Measure (MCM) unmanned system able to carry out any Mine Counter Measure (MCM) mission, using a collaborative system of surface and underwater robots even in the most challenging environments.  

In use within several navies since 2016, and being chosen in 2019 by leading NATO navies for MCM missions, the Belgian and Netherlands Navies, UMIS is a game changing solution for mine hunting at sea.

It has proved to be faster in fulfilling operations, more efficient, cost-effective and safe, as the crew is kept away from minefield.  

Comprehensive and modular, UMIS^TM  includes a wide range of interoperable unmanned vehicles such as USVs, UUVs (AUVs, ROV, MIDS ROVs), towed sonars, UAVs, etc.  UMIS^TM also integrates UMISOFT^TM, a C2 MCM comprehensive software suite allowing easy and complete management of the entire unmanned mission: preparation, run and supervision, data processing, analysis and management.

UMISOFT^TMenables to manage parallel drones missions, robot-from/on-robot deployment (such as USV deploying and retrieving a UUV) as well as automatic launch and recovery systems (LARS from USVs) and can be integrated into the combat management system (CMS) of the vessel (MCMV).

UMIS^TM will be presented with its mission management software suite.

It is the ideal solution for Navies and Homeland Protection operators engaged in battlefields and in survey or intervention missions at sea.

Unmanned Naval drones

For operations at sea, ECA GROUP has been developing state-of-the-art robotic systems to facilitate operator's missions and reduce missions' duration while providing high quality data and high performance.

ECA GROUP naval drones can detect, classify, locate, identify and neutralize threats at sea. A wide range of unmanned or remotely operated vehicles are available to reduce human exposure to danger. This includes:

• Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)

Already used by several renowned Navies, these systems have proven their performance, especially in Mine Counter measures activities.