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Aircraft over rugged terrain

Beyond
the signal.

Autonomous systems.
For a world that won’t wait.

Orca Tech develops onboard autonomy
for defense systems operating beyond
reliable GPS and communications.

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GPS availableLink maintainedConditions unchanged

The signal ends.
The thinking
shouldn’t.

Waypoints follow a script. Autonomy has to read the world. We’re building systems that perceive their surroundings, estimate their own movement, and work toward decisions made onboard.

Autonomy.
Inside the box.

Orca GPS-denied module
Modular integration concept

Orca module in its closed enclosure
Protective enclosureA compact, modular package.
Onboard computeProcess observations locally.
Stereo visionFeatures become motion estimates.
Sensor & platform interfacesConnect sensing to the host system.

One module. A new frame of reference.

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Intelligence.
Carried onboard.

A compact autonomy layer.
From what the camera sees
to where the system goes.

Find a way.
Without GPS.

Successive camera frames become a local estimate of movement. Our early visual-odometry prototypes track features to estimate speed and heading without a GPS fix.

Visual odometry · Early prototype
Visual odometry interface showing tracked camera features and a motion trajectory
Movement becomes a local frame of reference.
Infrared image with detected objects outlined

See more.
Understand more.

Visible and infrared detection bring the surrounding scene into focus. Models tested against a YOLO baseline showed fewer false positives in our internal benchmarks.

Perception · Internal testing

One autonomy layer.
More possibilities.

Air.Land.Maritime.

We’re building an autonomy layer for existing machines, starting with GPS-denied navigation. Integration across air, land, and maritime platforms is the direction.

From the bench.
Onto the aircraft.

V0 Jetson Nano with an IMX219 stereo camera.

V1 Quadcopter prototype with OAK-D Lite, Raspberry Pi 4, and Pixhawk.

A shorter path
to a decision.

The autonomy architecture we’re pursuing
keeps the loop inside the vehicle.

Extract visual features and object cues from onboard sensing. Build a useful picture of the immediate environment.

Built in steps.
With a clear
direction.

Our work begins with local navigation.
Adaptive sensing and mission-level decisions remain the road ahead.

  1. Current focus · Early prototype

    GPS-denied
    navigation

    Localize and navigate through visual odometry, with a module designed for existing platforms.

  2. Active development

    Perception-assisted
    navigation

    Bring object and infrared detection into the navigation stack to add environmental context.

  3. Roadmap

    Adaptive
    multi-sensor autonomy

    Switch between vision, radar, and other sensing strategies as operating conditions change.

  4. Vision

    Autonomous
    decision-making

    Reduce operator load through more onboard decisions in denied and degraded environments.

The next move
starts here.

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