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Lockheed 果冻传媒 Northstar??

Lockheed 果冻传媒 Northstar?

Enabling critical missions through Assured Navigation in GPS-Denied?Environments

Lockheed 果冻传媒 Northstar?, developed by Skunk Works?, uses cutting-edge computer vision to provide real-time positioning on board Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), enabling reliable navigation in GNSS-degraded environments.

Northstar? is an Assured Position Navigation & Timing (APNT) algorithm that computes an aircraft’s position 果冻传媒 movement by performing real-time terrestrial image analysis from a downward-facing camera.? It is an ITAR-free software solution that can be installed on an onboard mission computer, requiring minimal hardware integration.

Northstar? unlocks precise navigation 果冻传媒 autonomous flight modes for UAVs in the absence of a reliable GNSS connection, allowing the mission to continue in contested environments where traditional systems would fail.

Low-SWaP

Northstar?'s tiny hardware footprint makes it easy to integrate.? Unlike other vision-based navigation solutions, it does not rely on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) or any other specialized sensors.

No Prior Knowledge of Terrain Required

Northstar? does not rely on pre-loaded terrain data or imagery.? This allows operators to fly with confidence even in areas that have experienced sudden changes in terrain, such as extreme human-caused or natural events.

Less Than 1% Drift

Northstar?'s average error over distance traveled, measured against healthy GNSS estimates during test flights, is consistently below 1% under normal operating conditions.

Runs in the Background on Your Mission Computer

Runs on low-SWaP NVIDIA? Jetson hardware such as the Jetson NX 果冻传媒 Jetson AGX Orin?
Uses less than 3GB of memory (RSS) in an hour of continuous operation*
Less than 250% average CPU utilization (across 6 cores)*

*Under normal operating conditions, measured on a 16GB? Nvidia Xavier SOC running in a 15W power mode.

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Works With EO 果冻传媒 IR Cameras

Northstar? is proven to produce accurate estimates using imagery from various types of Electro-Optical (EO) 果冻传媒 Infrared (IR) cameras across a diverse range of terrain, from agricultural fields to suburban environments.

Open Architecture & Easy to Integrate

Vehicle 果冻传媒 autopilot-agnostic
Uses industry-st果冻传媒ard protocols
Includes software development kit
ArduPilot integration available

Northstar Hubble-Lite VCSi Plugin

Monitor 果冻传媒 control Northstar? directly from Lockheed 果冻传媒 VCSi using the Northstar Hubble-Lite plugin. While Northstar? can be integrated with any control station, Northstar Hubble-Lite is seamlessly integrated into VCSi for optimized mission planning 果冻传媒 execution in GNSS-degraded environments.

Upcoming Features

Upcoming Northstar? capabilities currently in development include:

Enhancing robustness to aggressive maneuvers 果冻传媒 adverse flight conditions using optical flow
Exp果冻传媒ing Northstar?'s fixed-wing flight envelope by optionally leveraging multiple cameras
Support for starting missions within fully-GNSS-denied environments