Perception
GPS-denied image-based visual servoing (IBVS)—real-time pixel-error tracking and velocity command generation from simulated onboard camera feeds.
Platform concepts
Notional airframe and simulation design targets.
This page documents the integrated platform research layer: a Gen-1 airframe concept model, simulation design parameters, SITL validation footage, and experimental progress. Parameters are design targets—not qualified field specifications.
Guidance concept · Gen 1
Concept model · digital twin
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Digital twin
Gen-1 airframe concept model.
A notional high-agility airframe studied as a digital twin for closed-loop guidance simulation against maneuvering UAS and mobile ground-target trajectories.
Flight dynamics validated via simulation and academic research—not field flight test.
Integrated stack
One integrated autonomy stack—not a kit of parts.
Platform research spans perception, guidance, and closed-loop control in simulation—studying counter-UAS and ground-target tracking scenarios with notional airframe concepts for future academic publication.
Autonomy researchAutonomous guidance
Closed-loop terminal guidance for simulated intercept trajectories—aerial and ground-target scenarios—without continuous operator control per run.
Platform concept
Notional high-agility airframe model for closed-loop guidance simulation against maneuvering UAS and mobile ground-target trajectories.
Simulation design parameters
Gen-1 design targets.
Notional parameters for simulation and academic research—stated as design targets, not qualified or field specifications.
90mph
Notional speed (sim)
12km
Notional range (sim)
<90s
Time to acquisition (sim)
30Hz
Onboard control loop
Progress
Research progress to date
Gen-1 airframe concept
Flight dynamics validated via simulation and academic research.
IBVS control loop
Closed-loop pixel-error tracking and velocity commands—running in sim and on ARM64 hardware.
Iteration speed
Rapid iterative design via hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation—not multi-year design reviews.
Next milestone
Closed-loop autonomous guidance—counter-UAS and ground-target profiles—in HITL simulation.
Research methodology
Simulation-first iteration within academic research norms.
- —Research focus on autonomy, aerodynamics, and simulation—not slideware.
- —Integrated study: guidance software and notional airframe models developed together in sim.
- —Hardware-in-the-loop IBVS simulator tunes gains entirely within simulation workflows.
Current focus
Closing the loop from autonomous track to terminal guidance—counter-UAS and ground-target scenarios—in simulation-only HITL environments.
Open to academic research discussions aligned with university fundamental research guidelines. Not a commercial offering.