Technology

GPS-denied navigation from the radios drones already carry.

Skylaris turns the swarm’s existing radio links into a shared sensing and navigation layer, so every node can help position itself and its neighbors without GPS or a central coordinator.

The Problem

Today’s swarms lose their way when GPS or links fail.

GPS-denied navigation is a routine operating condition in contested, indoor and subterranean environments.

01

GPS Denial

Jamming, spoofing and indoor environments can remove the positioning signal a fleet relies on.

02

Link Breaks

As a swarm moves farther from an operator, ground-control links weaken and position drift grows.

03

Single-Point Control

A central coordinator is a bottleneck. Lose the leader or operator link and the mission can fail.

04

Extra Hardware

Cameras, LiDAR, anchors and beacons add cost, weight, power draw and deployment friction to every vehicle.

How it works

One radio layer for cooperative navigation.

Skylaris uses the radios already onboard each vehicle to sense, range and coordinate the swarm—without GPS, a central node or added sensing hardware.

Robotic drone swarm in cooperative formation

Integrated Sensing & Comms

01

A joint sensing-and-communications waveform uses the same radio packet for data and ranging.

Cooperative Tracking

02

Passive measurements use neighbor broadcasts.

Decentralized Navigation

03

Each node compute range and velocity from neighbors' signals to estimate real-time 3D position and motion.

Low Compute Overhead

04

Lightweight tracking is designed for commercial SoCs with sub-millisecond computation overhead.

V1 Prototype
Skylaris testbed: USRP, Intel NUC, antennas and RC car
3D positioning accuracy over time comparing Skylaris, GPS baseline and IMU-only tracking
Demo
Skylaris cooperative navigation demo showing ground-testbed cameras and tracked trajectories
Next

See where this technology gets deployed — from contested airspace to smart factories to underground mines.

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