Air Domain

Tracking

We offer the ability to track objects that are seen in the field of view of an aerial camera. These tracks can then be shown on an aerial map.

Hostile Fire Indication

Our technology allows gunfire to be detected. This information is then processed to allow the direction of fire to be determined and also if the platform is the target.

Electromagnetics

To successfully complete a task, autonomous systems must be capable of responding to situational changes. Our systems provide capabilities such as Auto-Landing and Visual Building Exploration.

ESM

Our ESM systems monitor transmissions present in the environment surrounding an autonomous system. Changes in this environment can be detected and located.

Miniature Radar Altimeter

The MRA Type 1 is a market leading solution for UAVs and airborne/aerial targets. The high precision of the MRA Type 2 is ideally suited for VTOL UAVs

WiFi Radar

Our passive radar capability can be applied to wifi signals. This allows the detection of movement.

Autonomous Soaring

To maximise the endurance of gliding UAVs our system analyses video of the sky taken by an on-board camera and searches for the telltale clouds that are formed by rapidly rising hot air.

Combining this with GPS coordinates, real-time weather forecasts and computer simulations of air flow across the local terrain our software plans a route that passes through as many thermals as possible.

Landing Zone Identification

In an emergency it may not be possible for a UAV to return to a known landing area. Our system analyses video information to look for a suitable area to make an emergency landing.

Mosaic Map Generation

A system to provide mosaic map generation for the purpose of reliable autonomous event detection from a camera mounted on a UAV.

Threat Detection

Our 'STARTLE' program is a biologically-inspired architecture for cued threat detection which provides local protection of autonomous vehicles.

Autonomous Landing

From imagery, our 3D vision system is able to measure accurately the position of the UAV relative to the landing area. Knowledge of the position and attitude of a UAV to the intended landing point allows the orientation of small and medium sized UAVs to be tightly controlled and perform a successful landing.

Autonomous Taxiing

Our 3D vision technology can be applied to allow a UAV to navigate on the ground around an airfield.

Resilient Communications

Our resilient communications stack can improve bandwidth utilisation and delivery of data for autonomous systems.

Surface Wave Comms

Use of surface waves for autonomous system communications offer non line of sight / over the horizon communications with lower risk of interception.

Acoustic Communications

We have applied experience with RF communications to increase the performance of acoustic links.