Palladyne™ Pilot AI Software Platform
Closed-Loop Autonomous Detection, Tracking, and Control for Mobile, Aerial Machines
Drone-based missions are personnel-intensive, requiring multiple roles and shifts to maintain situational awareness. Tactical UAVs, in particular, face challenges with manual control, real-time decision-making, and persistent target tracking, especially in highly variable environments. The Palladyne Pilot AI Software Platform is designed to enhance your team’s operational effectiveness and oversight of tactical UAV missions by enabling a network of collaborating drones and multi-modal sensors that self-orchestrate to provide superior capabilities for applications including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).
The Palladyne Pilot Vision
Scale the operational effectiveness of tactical UAV missions through enhanced human-machine synergy and by transforming UAVs into autonomous collaborative assets.
Palladyne Pilot Supports
Varying Mission-Critical Applications:
Intelligence
Reconnaissance
Surveillance
Palladyne Pilot Readies Your Teams for
Mission-Critical Support
Enhances Autonomous Operations
- Transforms UAVs into autonomously collaborating platforms, reducing the personnel required for mission control.
Advanced Perception for Enhanced Situational Awareness
- Can support enhanced perception of the environment using internal and external sensors, including vision, LiDAR, radar, and acoustic inputs.
- Multi-source, multi-modal information improves perception robustness by mitigating sensor occlusion and noise.
- Improves target detection and tracking capabilities in dynamic environments with high variability by adaptively controlling sensor parameters.
Persistent Target Tracking Custody
- Adaptively controls each UAV’s sensor parameters to maintain field-of-view and enables UAVs to collaborate under limited communication bandwidth to collectively maintain custody of all targets of interest.
- Enhances ability to distinguish target details (e.g., color, shape, markings) using multi-modal information from multiple sensors.
Dynamic Learning and Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion
- Edge computing enables real-time learning and decision-making to provide persistent target tracking and monitoring of asset conditions.
- Enhances situational awareness by combining various information streams into a single, coherent view.
Intelligent Coordination and Information Sharing
- Allows UAVs to autonomously share information and collaborate on mission objectives.
- Enables fast anomaly detection and real-time decision-making at the edge.
- Improves UAV-to-target tracking assignments, ensuring optimal performance even when targets are temporarily obscured.
Autonomous Team Collaboration
- Designed to exchange low-bandwidth information (not high-bandwidth video or raw sensor data) between platforms and UAV operator, helping manage power-draw and enabling a network of collaborating drones and sensors that self-orchestrate to provide superior capabilities for applications, including ISR.
Platform-Agnostic, Fully Integrated Software Stack
- Designed to integrate with any mobile platform, providing a single-source software stack that enables remotely piloted aircraft-level capabilities for unmanned systems.
- Supports a decentralized, multi-agent network that reduces latency and power consumption through edge computing.
Team and Mission Success - Enhancing Operational Effectiveness with Palladyne Pilot
Enhanced Operational Effectiveness
- Reduces the personnel burden for missions by transforming UAVs into autonomously collaborating platforms.
- Provides improved situational awareness and real-time decision-making in unpredictable and variable environments.
- Enables UAVs to autonomously collaborate, maximizing operational coverage and information gathering.
Advanced AI and Machine Learning Capabilities
- Automates information extraction and processing, enabling faster, more efficient analysis.
- Expands field-of-view by adaptively controlling sensor parameters to optimally fuse multiple information streams, enhancing behavioral mapping and situational understanding.
- Supports complex, multi-sensor UAV missions with minimal operator input.
Increased Target Tracking Reliability
- Enhances persistent custody of moving or stationary targets of interest.
- Reduces sensor occlusion and noise, ensuring continuous custody of high-value targets.
- Fused sensor information helps operators detect and respond to threats more effectively.
Versatile Mission Support
- Platform-agnostic software integrates seamlessly with existing UAV systems, enabling a variety of mission-critical applications.
- Edge computing enables low-latency, high-reliability computing, improving performance even in challenging, unstructured environments.
Palladyne Pilot Helps Maximize Situational Awareness for the UAV Operator via Autonomously Collaborating Drone Team
Enabling a single operator (On-the-Loop) to command and control autonomous drone operations that provide intel on current target tracks while searching for new targets
Palladyne Pilot Delivers for Today’s Mobile Machines
The Palladyne Pilot AI Software Platform for UAVs transforms unmanned, tactical systems into a highly efficient, autonomous force multiplier, capable of persistent target tracking, dynamic collaboration, and enhanced situational awareness. With advanced perception, learning, and autonomous capabilities designed to reduce operational burden while dramatically improving mission effectiveness for military and defense operations, the Palladyne Pilot AI Software Platform stands ready to support and deliver mission effectiveness and success.