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One stack, from photon to decision.

Four capability cores — CUSTOS, PRAETOR, IGNIS, ASTRUM — built as one system: sensing feeds estimation, estimation feeds autonomy, autonomy answers to one operator.

THE FOUR CORES
CUSTOSGA LEASACHADH

Cridhe fèin-riaghlaidh airson ùrlaran gun sgioba. Mothachadh air an oir, reusanachadh air bòrd, agus itealaich sheasmhach thar cheanglaichean lag no diùltte — am pròiseas-dìon a tha a h-uile itealan a' ruith.

SEÒRSAFèin-riaghladh / itealaich
RAONAdhar · Oirthir
CEANGALFulangach air lagachadh
PRAETORGA LEASACHADH

Filleadh comannd is smachd. Riarachadh a' chabhlaich, cruinneachadh telemetraidh, agus ùghdarras daonna san lùb bho aon stèisean-talmhainn — aon obraiche, iomadh itealan.

SEÒRSAC2 / talamh
FARSAINGEACHDIoma-charbad
ÙGHDARRASDuine san lùb
IGNISBUNBHEACHD

Ailtireachd gluasaid ghlan airson adhair is mara. Iomain tar-chineàlach dealain agus gun sgaoilidhean, air a dealbhadh airson seasmhachd seach fuaim.

SEÒRSAGluasad
CUAIRTTar-chineàlach · gun sgaoilidhean
AMASSeasmhachd
ASTRUMRANNSACHADH

Filleadh mothachaidh. Amharc na Talmhainn ioma-speactram air a thogail mu arraighean SPAD le loidhnichean-gleusaidh againn fhìn, air an gleusadh airson co-dhùnadh air an oir ann an solas ìosal — seallaidhean gann air fotonan air an leughadh air bòrd, aig ciaradh, anns a' cheò.

SEÒRSAMothachadh / EO-IR
ARRAIGHSPAD · ioma-speactram
CO-DHÙNADHSolas ìosal · air an oir
THE AUTONOMY LOOP
01 SENSE

ASTRUM multi-spectral sensing — SPAD arrays with in-house calibration, tuned for photon-starved scenes: dusk, smoke, moonless sectors. Inference happens on the aircraft, not in the cloud.

02 ESTIMATE

A navigation filter that earns its trust: optical flow, barometer and magnetometer carry the estimate through GNSS blackouts, and innovation gating rejects spoof-style jumps outright.

03 DECIDE

CUSTOS mission autonomy — patrol, detect, divert, orbit, resume. Contacts are confirmed and geolocated without a human in the loop; authority stays with the operator.

04 ACT

A cascade flight controller that flies on the estimate, not on hope — the same control law runs in the engineering simulator and on the aircraft.

VALIDATED IN SIMULATION, ENFORCED IN CI

Every claim on this site traces to the engineering simulation suite in the programme repository — a 6-DOF physics model of the NIGHTJAR flying the same autonomy stack. The suite runs on every commit, across seeded randomised conditions, and the build fails if the aircraft stops meeting its numbers.

IGNITION → ALERT
< 40 s, validated across seeds
GNSS BLACKOUT
0.78 m peak error over 20 s coasting
GEOLOCATION
< 0.31 m CEP from autonomous orbit
GATE
Sim suite runs in CI on every commit
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CRIDHEACHAN COMAIS
7
ITEALAIN MHISEAN
2026
AIR A STÈIDHEACHADH
100%
ÌRE ITEALAIN
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