Drone Autonomy
Turn Drones Into Autonomous Mission Platforms
Onboard autonomy for navigation, mission execution, sensor control, target tracking and autonomous mission behaviors.
Overview
What the Drone Autonomy Suite does
The Drone Autonomy Suite is an onboard autonomy layer that upgrades existing UAS from remotely piloted aircraft into mission systems that execute intent. The operator assigns a mission; the aircraft plans, flies, observes and reports.
Autonomy runs on the drone alongside Neuronic video analytics, so perception and behaviour share the same edge computer: the aircraft can find a target, follow it, keep a gimbal locked on an area of interest and continue the mission when the operator is busy or the link degrades.
The suite integrates with common autopilots and payloads through MAVLink and ROS, and supports cooperative operations where several aircraft, or aircraft and ground robots, work the same mission under NOMAD.
Capabilities
Core capabilities
- Autonomous navigation and route execution
- Mission execution from operator-assigned intent
- Autonomous target following
- Area-of-interest (AOI) tracking and orbit
- Gimbal and payload control tied to detected targets
- Configurable mission behaviors
- Communication-loss behavior and safe continuation
- Payload and sensor integration
- Cooperative and multi-drone operations
- Counter-UAS support: autonomous interception patterns and target observation
Missions
Mission applications
- Autonomous reconnaissance and ISR
- Target detection, following and observation
- Route and corridor surveillance
- Counter-UAS engagement support
- Loitering and standoff observation
- Multi-drone and air-ground cooperative operations
Integration
Interfaces and integration
Built to drop into an existing architecture — standard interfaces, standard hardware, no forced replacement of fielded systems.
- Autopilot interface: MAVLink (PX4, ArduPilot and compatible flight stacks)
- Middleware: ROS / ROS 2 nodes for perception, planning and payload control
- Perception: native integration with the Neuronic Video Analytics Suite
- Comms: operates with the Tactical Video & Teleoperation Suite over RF, mesh and cellular
- C2: mission assignment, status and target reporting to NOMAD and ATAK
Related
Works with
Video Analytics Suite
Edge-AI video analytics for automatic detection, classification and persistent tracking from EO and IR video.
NOMAD Tactical Robotic C2
A tactical command-and-control platform for coordinating drones, UGVs, robotic dogs, sensors and observation posts through one operational interface.
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