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P-01·EUSPA · HORIZON 2020 · #870236

HUUVER

Hybrid UAV-UGV for Efficient Relocation of Vessels. A drone that both flies and drives — VTOL, perches, drives on terrain, climbs. The first drone in the world integrated with full Galileo authentication.

Reveal
17 February 2022
Total budget
~$1.75M
EU contribution
~$1.30M
Consortium
Dronehub-led · 7 partners · 5 countries

What we built

A drone that switches between flight and ground.

Most drones are useful right until the battery runs low or the terrain gets complicated. HUUVER is engineered for the moment they break — it lands, drives across the obstacle or hard-to-reach zone, and continues the mission on the ground. That delivers an endurance profile no pure-flight drone can match: 20 minutes of flight, 10 hours of ground mobility.

The platform integrates VTOL, perching, driving, and climbing modes. It was also the first UAV in the world to integrate full Galileo authentication — the EU's satellite positioning system with cryptographically signed signals, immune to GPS spoofing. Strategic value for sovereign operations, border patrol, and any context where signal integrity is a precondition for trust.

Specifications

Dimensions
137 × 84 × 56 cm
Weight
23 kg
Flight endurance
20 minutes
Ground endurance
10 hours
Navigation
Galileo (full authentication)
LiDAR
Velodyne Puck LITE
Compute
Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier
Thermal imaging
FLIR thermal camera

Consortium

We led an international consortium.

HUUVER was Dronehub's first EU-consortium leadership role — 7 partners across 5 countries, coordinated from Poland. Vadym Melnyk personally listed as project coordinator, which is rare for a company still at SME stage. The same pattern repeats across our R&D portfolio: when the EU wants a complex multi-country consortium led, they call us.

  • Dronehub (Poland) — Lead
  • RECTANGLE (Poland)
  • LUT University (Finland)
  • NTT Data Spain (Spain)
  • GINA Software (Czech Republic)
  • BLADESCAPE (Austria)
  • Brimatech Services (Austria)

Applications

  • Search and rescue in mixed terrain
  • Border and infrastructure patrol
  • Monitoring of vessels and hard-to-reach industrial sites
  • Sovereign operations requiring Galileo-authenticated nav