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Surveillance Drone

Cooperative multi-UAV platform for contested GNSS conditions, with resilient communications and edge processing.

Cactus flight controller board for a surveillance drone

Challenge

Critical infrastructure required several UAVs to cooperate while operating under degraded communications and GNSS jamming or spoofing. The system needed resilient communications, accurate positioning and onboard processing.

Solution

The platform combines embedded hardware, firmware and connectivity architecture with RTK, NTRIP, anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities. Mesh networking provides a fallback communication path under degraded conditions, while edge processing supports cooperative multi-UAV.

Benefits

  • Anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities

  • Resilient mesh communications

  • RTK and NTRIP positioning

  • Cooperative multi-UAV architecture

  • Edge processing

Embedded control electronics

Communication integration

Remote monitoring

Mission firmware

System validation

GNSSRF communicationsMachine learningIgnion

Technologies:

Embedded systems, Firmware, RF communications, GNSS, Sensor integration, Drone electronics, MAVLink, Ignion, Machine Learning (Edge AI), RTK, NTRIP, mesh

Methodology:

Hardware & Firmware co-design, System integration, Field-oriented testing

Team:

3 engineers

Duration:

12 months