Smarter Airspace Management for Critical Operations
SkyTL provides full situational awareness and human-on-the-loop mission coordination, designed to manage missions involving multiple autonomous vehicles and resources. From airspace surveillance to fully autonomous mission management, SkyTL leverages advanced autonomous coordination and predictive analytics within a flexible and modular design.
This ensures seamless integration across domains, making it a vital tool for multi-domain operations in contested environments. Engineered for deployment on the cloud or onboard high-altitude airborne systems, SkyTL integrates diverse mission-critical inputs and outputs, ensuring robust adaptability in contested or denied environments.
Architecture and Features
SkyTL employs a layered architecture that emphasizes modularity,
interoperability, and autonomy:
Core Services
Platform-independent modules enabling broad mission applicability.
Includes communication, data fusion, and mission orchestration components.
Tactic-Specific Services
Domain-specific capabilities such as surveillance and reconnaissance, wildfire modeling, suppression coordination, and utility scoring.
Supports behaviors and mission "plays" tailored to each scenario.
Platform-Specific Services
Interfaces for integrating autopilots, radios, sensors, and other vehicle-specific systems.
Adapts to operate seamlessly across diverse platforms.
Autonomy Framework
Distributed consensus algorithms for coordinating swarms of vehicles.
Supports human-in-the-loop, on-the-loop, and off-the-loop operation modes.
Capabilities
Swarm Behavior
Autonomous and coordinated swarm operations for suppression and reconnaissance.
Dynamic replanning under adverse conditions, such as GPS degradation or sensor failure.
Open and Extendable Architecture
Supports third-party software and hardware integrations for mission-specific adaptability.
Modular design ensures upgradability and compatibility across diverse platforms.
Tiered Autonomy
Adaptable autonomy levels to optimize human-autonomy teaming, allowing operators to manage objectives rather than individual tasks.
Resilient Operations in Contested Environments
Maintains swarm effectiveness under bandwidth constraints and adversarial conditions.
Enables long-range operations with minimal human intervention.