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The software-defined drone stack

Altnautica is a full-stack, open, software-defined drone platform: a flight computer, onboard agents, a browser ground station, and cloud fleet management. Each layer works on its own, and together they make any drone autonomous.
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17
Supported boards
4
Flight stacks
50km+
Video range
100%
Open source

Architecture

One stack, four layers

From the board on the drone up to the fleet in the cloud. Every layer is independent, and every layer is open.

MeshNet
MQTT telemetry, fleet analytics, and mission dispatch across every registered drone.
Mission Control
A browser ground station to plan, configure, simulate, and fly any flight stack.
Agents
The software-defined runtime on the drone, the ground station, and the operator machine.
Flight Computer
AI compute, real-time flight control, HD video, and cellular on one open board.

Capabilities

Every part of the platform

Compute, autonomy, connectivity, and the ecosystem around them. Each capability carries its own maturity so nothing on this page overstates what ships today.

Flight ComputerIn Development
AI compute, flight control, video, and 4G/5G on one boardLearn more →
Vision EngineAvailable
Model registry, custom model upload, and on-vehicle inferenceLearn more →
Sensor FusionIn Development
Plug-and-play multi-sensor fusion hub on the companion computerLearn more →
AtlasAvailable
Capture-to-reconstruction world model: splats, point clouds, meshLearn more →
Video & Data LinkShipping
50 km+ HD video, 30-70 ms latency, WebRTC cloud relayLearn more →
MeshNetAvailable
Cloud fleet telemetry, MQTT relay, four-tier drone integrationLearn more →
SwarmIn Development
Fleet coordination — the swarm radio and the distributed hive mindLearn more →
LoRaIn Development
Long-range low-throughput link and mesh reach across the fleetLearn more →
Survey & 3DAvailable
Capture-to-reconstruction pipeline, 18 export formatsLearn more →
ProtocolsShipping
Full ArduPilot, PX4, Betaflight, and iNav supportLearn more →
Extension SystemShipping
The plugin platform: signed agent plugins and sandboxed GCS panelsLearn more →

Principles

What the platform stands for

Any drone

One ground station and one agent speak ArduPilot, PX4, Betaflight, and iNav across 17 supported companion boards.

Open source

GPLv3 software and CC0 hardware. Fork it, ship it commercially, keep your own revisions private.

Local first

The ground station reaches an agent directly over the LAN. Cloud relay is there when you want remote reach, never required.

Rust-first runtime

The onboard agent runs a hybrid Rust and Python runtime, with the safety-critical services written in Rust for reliability.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is ADOS?

ADOS is Altnautica's drone operating stack: the software layers that run across the drone, the ground, and the cloud. It is open source under GPLv3, works with ArduPilot, PX4, Betaflight, and iNav, and runs on hardware you already own.

Which flight-controller firmware does Altnautica support?

Altnautica supports ArduPilot and PX4 fully over MAVLink, and Betaflight and iNav over MSP. The same Mission Control ground station configures and flies all four.

What hardware does the drone agent run on?

The drone agent runs on 17 supported companion boards, from a Raspberry Pi 3, 4, and 5 and Compute Modules to NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Orin Nano, Radxa, Orange Pi, and other Rockchip ARM64 Linux boards. One install command detects the board and configures it.

One ecosystem for any drone

Start with the ground station in your browser, then add the agent to any companion computer.

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