Our Mission
Austral Engineering and Software, Inc. (AES) was formed in 1994 with the mission of pursuing engineering research, development, and commercialization in a number of high-technology fields ranging from aeronautics and flight control design to communications, signal processing, and navigation. With a balanced measure of theoretical and practical capabilities, AES develops user-interactive software and hardware systems that make technically sophisticated applications available to a larger audience of scientific and engineering experts. AES engineers have extensive experience working with customers to meet their needs. Our organization is innovative, team-centered, flexible, and effective.
Our Expertise
Specific areas of our expertise include:
- Dynamic systems modeling and analysis
- System identification (both time- and frequency-domain methods)
- Control system analysis and design (linear, nonlinear, classical, and modern techniques)
- Continuous- and discrete-time systems as well as hybrid systems
- High-fidelity event-driven software simulation environments
- Data acquisition and digital signal processing
- Single- and multi-objective optimization
- Data visualization
- Graphical user interface design and implementation
- Procedural and object-oriented software development
- Real-time hardware and software systems
- Aerodynamic modeling and wind tunnel testing
- Flight control applications
- Communication system coding and modulation (theory and hardware)
- Challenging positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications
- All aspects of GPS and navigation, including high-accuracy relative navigation systems
- Inertial sensor implementation and data processing
- Kalman filtering and sensor integration
- Experienced in all aspects of systems engineering and the product life cycle, including development of initial requirements, system design and development, system testing, and transition to production