Goes anywhere
HELIX amphibious robots can successfully traverse hard ground, mud, tailings, snow, ice, and water. With 4-screw, skid-steer capabilities, HELIX can manoeuver specialized payloads into the most inaccessible of terrains.
HELIX AR2 – Amphibious Robot
Hazardous Environment Robot For Water Monitoring Services
HELIX AR2 – Amphibious Robot
Remote Operated Geotechnical Investigations – Ground Penetrating Radar, Earth Sampling Tools, Digital Vane Shear Tool, Digital Cone Penetrometer & Geotechnical Surveys.Â
600 kg Amphibious All Terrain Robot – top speed of 2 kts on water and 4.5 mph/7.25 kmph on ground.Â
HELIX AR2 – Amphibious Robot
WATCH VIDEO​​HELIX AR2 is an 800 kg amphibious robot with a central payload deployment tower consisting of a rack and pinion mechanism used to deploy instruments and samplers into the tailings or soil up to 4 m deep. A sample magazine is used to store several samples per trip. Copperstone has developed HELIX, a family of autonomous field robots to collect mission-critical data in hazardous environments. Copperstone has modernized the screw-drive vehicle and adapted it to work as a robotic platform specifically for environmental monitoring and tailings investigations. The patented screw drives are pontoons that enable flotation, with a helical grouser acting as a propeller when spun at high speed in the water. At low speeds, the vehicle can crawl through soft mud deposits or act as a wheel on hard ground. HELIX has many advantages over other modes of propulsion and is perfectly suited to the variety of terrain and seasonal conditions encountered on tailings.
Benefits
Ability for heavy payloads
HELIX is designed to float on water or saturated soils and muds. Its large deck platform and high buoyancy allow heavy work such as water and mud sampling or geotechnical measurements, and add-on tanks allow for high push and pull forces.
Health and safety
Workers remain in safe environments while robots do the dangerous work. This is not only good practice, but a significant cost savings as well. HELIX can even be used to tow a stranded boat and/or be modified to act as a rescue vehicle.
Cost savings
Robots require fewer labour and equipment hours and are less expensive than conventional equipment, allowing more timely information to be gathered at lower cost. Robots can be used with fewer safety planning hours and be operational more quickly.
Green solution
Our electrically-operated cleantech robots have no emissions and can be made intrinsically safe to help industrial operations become more sustainable.
Remote Operations
HELIX Dash software enables the coordination of both autonomous and remote operational capabilities without placing humans at risk. Giving the user ultimate control over the rover.
HELIX Dash
HELIX Dash is a modular application comprised of various plugins used to monitor, control, and visualize various aspects of the rover and its payloads.
Features
- Autonomous waypoint navigation & survey path planning
- Industrial handheld remote control with E-Stop
- Computer-controlled ground station with live streaming video, data, and mapping
- Remote control range LOS up to 1.3 mi/ 2 km
- Remote control frequency, 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz
- Data Telemetry Range LOS up to 1.3 mi/ 2 km
- Wifi and on board video range LOS up to 0.7 mi/ 1 km
- Range may be increased with licensed radio hardware
- Satellite and cellular control options for BLOS
- All Terrain Amphibious
- Electric drive & battery powered
- Geotechnical or water survey payloads
- Long range radio, remote and autonomous
- All season, all weather capable
- Available globally
Technical Data
Dimensions / Weight
Performance
Speed
Additional
Length
125in / 3.2 m
Width
87in / 2.2 m
Height
285in / 7.2 m
Base weight
1320 lbs/ 600 kg
Payload Capacity
880 lbs/ 400 kg
Power
18.2 kWhr LiPo battery pack. Available with NiCd, NiMH or LiFeP04 options
Top speed on water
2 kts
Top speed on ground
4.5 mph/ 7.25 kmph
Range
8 hours, 12.5 mi / 20 km
Navigation
Ellipse-D, Dual Antenna RTK Inertial Navigation System,± 0.2° heading, 1 cm RTK GNSS Position
