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ADAS & Autonomy for Ground Robotics
AUTONOMY BOX
Off-road autonomy for UGVs and quadrupeds
A sealed compute module that turns a teleoperated ground platform into an assisted or fully autonomous one. Built for unstructured terrain rather than road lanes: the perception stack expects slopes, vegetation, ruts and dust, and it adapts to both wheeled or tracked UGVs and legged quadrupeds.
ADAS layer
- ▸Obstacle detection with negative-obstacle and ditch awareness
- ▸Collision avoidance and speed governing under operator control
- ▸Rollover and slope-limit protection for off-camber terrain
- ▸Assisted teleoperation over degraded or high-latency links
Autonomy layer
- ▸Waypoint and route following across unmapped terrain
- ▸Traversability estimation and cost-map planning
- ▸Follow-me, leader-follower and convoy behaviors
- ▸Return-to-operator and comms-loss fallback behaviors
Navigation
- ▸GPS-denied localization with visual-inertial odometry and LiDAR SLAM
- ▸Geo-registration against prior imagery where available
- ▸Terrain-relative pose estimation for legged gait planning
- ▸Area and building scanning with mapped output
Platform fit
- ▸Off-road UGVs — wheeled and tracked, from light mules to heavy carriers
- ▸Quadrupeds — gait-aware planning and step placement for robotic dogs
- ▸Vehicle-agnostic drive-by-wire and actuator abstraction layer
- ▸Swarm and hybrid-swarm logic coordinating UGVs, quadrupeds and drones
Interoperability
- ▸ATAK / TAK Cursor-on-Target reporting for dismounted operators
- ▸STANAG 4818 interoperable control and STANAG 4609 imagery pass-through
- ▸ROS2, CAN, serial and I2C buses for sensors, payloads and vehicle ECUs
- ▸Optional onboard ATR detector-tracker for ISR and C-UAS overwatch tasks
At a glance
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson (Orin family), Qualcomm
- Sensors
- Stereo, LiDAR, IMU, EO/IR
- Platforms
- Wheeled, tracked, quadruped
- Interfaces
- ROS2, CAN, serial, I2C, custom
- Standards
- STANAG 4818, STANAG 4609, ATAK / CoT
- Teaming
- Swarm and hybrid-swarm coordination
- Navigation
- GNSS and GPS-denied
- Origin
- Designed and supported in Israel
NVIDIA JetsonQualcommiMX8Hailo
Integration FAQ
- Which ground platforms can the Autonomy Box be fitted to?
- Wheeled and tracked off-road UGVs, from light mules to heavy carriers, as well as robotic quadrupeds. A vehicle-agnostic drive-by-wire and actuator abstraction layer handles the platform-specific control interface.
- Does the Autonomy Box work without GPS?
- Yes. It localizes with visual-inertial odometry and LiDAR SLAM, and can geo-register against prior imagery where available, so navigation continues in GPS-denied and jammed environments.
- What sensors and interfaces are required?
- Typical builds use stereo cameras, LiDAR, an IMU and optional EO/IR. The module connects over ROS2, CAN, serial, I2C or a custom bridge to the existing vehicle control stack.
- Can operators keep manual control?
- Yes. The ADAS layer runs underneath teleoperation, providing obstacle and negative-obstacle detection, collision avoidance, speed governing and rollover protection while the operator drives, including over degraded or high-latency links.
- What happens if the comms link drops?
- Comms-loss fallback behaviors take over, including return-to-operator and safe-stop. Waypoint and route following continue across unmapped terrain using onboard traversability estimation and cost-map planning.
- Does the Autonomy Box support swarm or hybrid-swarm operations?
- Yes. Multiple UGVs and quadrupeds can operate as a swarm with shared cost maps and task allocation, and a hybrid-swarm can mix ground platforms with drones so one operator supervises the whole team from a single control surface.
- How does it integrate with ATAK and NATO standards?
- Vehicle position, mapped areas and detected objects are published as Cursor-on-Target messages to ATAK / TAK clients. Control interoperability follows STANAG 4818, and onboard video can be passed through as STANAG 4609 motion imagery with KLV metadata.
- Can it run ATR for C-UAS or ISR overwatch?
- Yes. The same Neuronics ATR detector-tracker can run on the box, giving a UGV or quadruped onboard target recognition for ISR and C-UAS overwatch while the autonomy stack continues to drive the platform.
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