Aerospace Design and Consulting Services
Engineering for complex, high-reliability systems.
ADCS combines control engineering, simulation, embedded software and systems integration to take demanding ideas from first principles to verified implementation.
Capabilities
Integrated engineering across the system lifecycle.
Control, Autonomy & Estimation
Control, estimation and decision-making for systems that must operate accurately in uncertain and demanding environments.
Guidance, navigation and control · State estimation and sensor fusion · Robust and multivariable control · Autonomy · Fault detection and recovery
High-Reliability Software & Firmware
Software across the engineering stack — from device-level firmware and embedded platforms to distributed supervisory applications.
Firmware and real-time systems · Embedded Linux · Drivers and board support · Supervisory and control software · Distributed services and APIs · Automated quality and testing
Modelling, Simulation & Verification
Models and test environments that reveal system behaviour, verify performance and reduce deployment risk.
Dynamic system modelling · Mission and operational analysis · System identification · Hardware- and software-in-the-loop · Performance assessment · Algorithm verification
Systems Architecture & Integration
Architectures and interfaces that bring hardware, software, communications and infrastructure into a reliable whole.
System and interface architecture · Distributed systems · Hardware-software integration · Device communications · Redundant and fail-safe design · Integration environments
Data & Operational Systems
Systems that acquire, transport and visualise data while enabling operators to monitor and control complex equipment.
Telemetry and command · Data acquisition and pipelines · Monitoring and visualisation · Mission and facility operations · Scientific control infrastructure · Edge and cloud deployment
About
About ADCS
Aerospace Design and Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd is a South African engineering company specialising in control systems, high-reliability software, modelling and complex systems integration for aerospace and advanced engineering domains.
The work spans the complete engineering path: requirements, modelling, estimation and control design, embedded implementation, integration and hardware- and software-in-the-loop verification.
Experience spans Earth-observation satellites, nanosatellite platforms and unmanned aircraft — control-system design and implementation, flight software and hardware-in-the-loop verification. Several years were spent in the Netherlands, applying the same control and real-time software engineering to semiconductor lithography, electric vehicles and industrial robotics. Current capability also extends to distributed control and software integration for radio astronomical observatories.
Industries
Satellite systems · Unmanned aircraft · Cloud computing · Semiconductor lithography · Electric vehicles · Industrial robotics · Radio astronomy · Embedded Linux
Portal
See the engineering.
ADCS builds live environments for exploring simulations, control behaviour, telemetry interfaces and mission software. They turn engineering results into something clients can inspect, exercise and discuss together.
Contact
Let’s discuss your engineering problem.
Tell us where you are in the lifecycle — early analysis, detailed design, implementation, integration or verification — and where specialist support would make the greatest difference.
- Phone
- +27 72 644 8444
- Location
- Cape Town, South Africa