Autonomy that holds the lock when the signal dies.
DynamiStripe’s Autonomous Solutions division engineers guidance, navigation, and control software for contested environments: GPS-denied navigation, swarm simulation, and electronic-warfare resilience testing.
Built for the moment the environment turns hostile.
Modern autonomy is easy in a clean sky. Our work starts where the clean sky ends: denied GNSS, contested spectrum, and vehicles that still have to navigate, coordinate, and complete the mission.
- +Kalman-filter state estimation tuned against logged flight data, not just textbook noise models.
- +Sensor fusion across IMU, vision odometry, and optical flow with health monitoring per source.
- +Controller integration and gain tuning taken from simulation to bench to flight.
- +Magnetic-anomaly navigation research flown against published survey map data.
- +Platform magnetic compensation calibrated per airframe before any navigation claim.
- +Layered fallbacks: dead reckoning and optical flow hold the solution between fixes.
- +Scenario suites that deny GNSS mid-mission and log the full degradation envelope.
- +Repeatable pass/fail metrics: position drift, recovery time, and mission completion.
- +Fallback engineering validated in the same harness that exposed the failure.
- +Multi-vehicle SITL testbeds built on ArduPilot-class stacks.
- +Scripted coordination scenarios with per-vehicle failure and link-loss injection.
- +Regression metrics so a change to one vehicle cannot silently break the formation.
- +Additively manufactured VTOL airframes iterated in days, not quarters.
- +Flight-controller bring-up, calibration, and tuning as a repeatable checklist.
- +Every airframe change round-trips through simulation before it flies.
- +Ground-control tooling and telemetry pipelines built for operators, not demos.
- +Real-time and low-latency systems in Rust, Python, and C++.
- +Delivered with documentation, observability, and clean handoff; the commercial-branch standard.
Assume denial. Engineer the fallback. Prove it flies.
The process is deliberately unglamorous: define the degraded envelope, break the system on the bench, and let flight data have the final word.
Model the threat
Every engagement starts from the degraded case, not the demo case. We define what gets denied (GPS, comms, line of sight) and design the stack against that envelope from day one.
Break it in simulation
Before hardware is at risk, the system runs through software-in-the-loop scenarios that deny sensors, inject interference, and force failures. What breaks in simulation gets fixed in simulation.
Prove it in flight
Simulation earns a flight test; it never replaces one. Results are measured against the same metrics used on the bench, and the gap between the two is treated as the finding.
The team behind our commercial AI infrastructure builds the mission software here.
DynamiStripe’s Software Solutions Branch ships production AI systems, data infrastructure, and low-latency backends for commercial clients. The Autonomous Solutions division applies that same engineering discipline to defense problems.
Request a capabilities briefing.
Send the mission context, the environment you expect to operate in, and the timeline. You will get a direct, practical read on what we can build and prove, principal to principal.
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