在高风险林区上空的晨昏巡逻线,以热成像读取地面情况。一处阴燃的火源在起火后数分钟内即被定位并上报 —— 此时它仍只是一个小组能处理的范围,而非上千公顷的大火。2025年英国经历了有记录以来最大规模的野火;2026年苏格兰出台了国家行动计划。
SIDRA
为无GPS环境打造的自主飞行器。感知、导航与任务自主性 — 英国制造。
气候与公共安全领域最棘手的难题,不再受限于人类团队独自能触及的范围。
SIDRA 为公共机构、研究人员和产业界打造自主系统 —— 专为无GPS环境设计,并遵循航空级标准。监测森林的平台,也能检修风力涡轮机:一套自主技术栈,支撑众多任务场景。
我们在边界上运作 —— 飞行器依靠自身估计,穿越被拒止的导航环境,对重要目标进行地理定位,然后返航。工作从确定性终止之处开始。
The fleet
One autonomy core, CUSTOS, flies every airframe, and every mission gets an airframe tuned to its envelope. A buildable quadcopter today, a hybrid VTOL in development, a long-endurance concept next.
Buildable today: ~£610 bill of materials, 40-minute hover, flying the CUSTOS autonomy stack on commercial hardware.
Bullet fuselage, blended wing, four lift rotors and a pusher: vertical launch anywhere, fixed-wing range once airborne. Carries the ASTRUM SPAD low-light array for after-dark sector sweeps.
The watchtower of the fleet: an extended-range sensor platform for wide-area environmental survey, carbon verification and flood-corridor mapping.
Low-noise rotors and high-AGL optics for standoff orbits animals never notice.
Precision station-keeping against turbine blades and solar rows, macro imaging in ground-effect turbulence.
Salt-spray hardened BVLOS transit and structured survey where crewed flights stay grounded.
Low-tide repeat survey over mangrove restoration plots, multispectral scoring that steers the next seeding season.
NIGHTJAR。实体建造,而非渲染图。
与工程CAD图纸完全一致的机身 —— 从轴距到每一颗紧固件。拖动以环视。
七项任务,七型飞行器。
每项任务都配得上一架专属飞行器。
同一个自主核心——CUSTOS——驱动整个机队,但每项任务都由为其任务包线量身打造的专属机型执行。校准火情位置的环绕轨迹同样能检查风机叶片;平台在变,纪律不变。
对一处冰斗做热扫描只需几分钟,而不是绳索队的一个下午——而最关键的出动往往在天黑之后。从救援基地垂直起飞,以固定翼巡航抵达搜索扇区,导航栈在卫星信号微弱的峡谷中依靠自身估计保持定位。
机队的瞭望塔。长航时重复航线飞越修复中的覆被泥炭地,测量再湿润与植被恢复,支撑碳汇核证;洪水上涨时,同一架飞行器沿河道执行超视距飞行,在救援力量还有数小时窗口时测绘出洪水范围。
高空、静音的远距离环绕飞行清点兽群数量,记录迁徙走廊,并标记不应出现在此的车辆 —— 动物们从未察觉旋翼的声响。
校准目标位置的同一套环绕逻辑也能执行叶片跟随扫描:前缘侵蚀与雷击损伤被精确地理标记到具体叶片站位。在光伏阵列上方,热成像航线在产能曲线暴露问题之前就发现热斑与故障组串——无需绳索队,不浪费停机窗口。
超视距飞行前往平台与变电站,在使有人驾驶飞行停飞的盐雾环境中进行结构化勘测 —— 以及在GNSS信号恶化时依然保持自身估计的导航技术栈。
海湾地区正以数亿株的规模种植红树林 —— 仅阿布扎比一地就以2030年前无人机播种1亿株为目标。总要有人测量哪些幸存下来。低潮期的重复调查为发芽率和存活率打分,为下一轮播种提供依据。
The gap between ignition and alert
2026 was Scotland’s worst fire season on record. Eleven thousand hectares went at Carrbridge and Dava, the Cairngorms National Park was evacuated as fire spread north through forestry, and Arthur’s Seat burned in the heart of Edinburgh. Across the continent that July, Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, Italy and Türkiye burned through the third heatwave in six weeks. The scars on this board are that record, each one carrying its date. The thermal markers are whatever is open today. What sits between them has not moved: detection still depends on watchtowers, passers-by and satellites that revisit hours apart, and the gap between ignition and alert is where a one-crew fire becomes a thousand-hectare one. It is the gap NIGHTJAR patrols.
What the gap costs
A free-burning fire grows with the SQUARE of the time it is left alone. Answer in forty seconds and it is a square metre of ground. Answer when the next satellite pass has been processed and it is 72,900 times the fire.
NIGHTJARIgnition to alert in the engineering simulator, patrolling the ground it is over.
SATELLITENASA FIRMS publishes near-real-time detections about three hours after the satellite overpass that saw them.
Elliptical spread at 3 m/min, length-to-breadth 3:1. A model, not a measurement: real fires meet rivers, roads, rain and crews.
NIGHTJAR’s target: ignition to geolocated alert in under 90 seconds, on autonomous dawn and dusk patrol.
Watch it find the fire ↓创始人主导,从机身开始构建。
正在打造SIDRA的NIGHTJAR机身与CUSTOS自主技术栈,并在内部通过六自由度仿真进行了验证。
拥有在Baykar Technologies从事无人机性能工程的背景,随后负责管理Baykar—SAMI—沙特国防部合作项目,推动Bayraktar Akıncı与TB2无人机在沙特阿拉伯的本地化生产 —— 这是土耳其规模最大的国防出口合作项目。
曾在爱丁堡大学APRIL人工智能中心(意法半导体 × 谷歌DeepMind × 英国皇家工程院)、布里斯托无人机学会、伦敦大学学院电子电气工程系以及英国空客从事研究工作。
英国皇家航空学会及英国机械工程师学会会员。通晓三种语言(阿拉伯语、英语、土耳其语),童子军领队,正在英国创业。
工作之外:热爱自然,饲养鹦鹉,对野生动物与自然保护充满热情 —— 这也是环境应用对SIDRA所构建之事如此重要的部分原因。
正在招募创始首席技术官(自主性 / 人工智能)以及各能力支柱领域的技术负责人。
构建起火与响应之间的关键一环。
SIDRA 是一家总部位于格拉斯哥的早期创业公司,正将单一自主核心 —— CUSTOS —— 从已验证的飞行测试推向野火早期预警、检测与环境任务领域的实际部署。我们正在与支持前沿硬件与气候韧性的投资者及合作伙伴洽谈。
