Auterion Delivers Supercomputer Performance Onboard Drones and Mobile Robots With AI Node – sUAS News

Auterion, the company building an open and software-defined future for enterprise drone fleets, today announced the availability ofAI Nodefor pre-order, an onboard computer for drones and other mobile robots that adds supercomputer performance to Skynode, right at the edge. AI Node easily integrates withAuterions open ecosystem, resulting in a greater choice of powerful solutions for end users.

AI Node is equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, the worlds smallest AI supercomputer for embedded and edge systems, which enables the direct processing of high bandwidth sensor data for better decision-making during operations. Compute-heavy AI and ML algorithms for object recognition, tracking and counting can be used, on mission, in advanced applications for public safety, security, and wildlife conservation, and across industry use cases.

As enterprises leverage more powerful cameras and sensors on drones,, the huge amount of data being created will overload any current data link, including 5G, said Markus Achtelik, vice president of engineering atAuterion. Its much more efficient to process raw data onboard via supercomputer, so that the operator or even the software itself can engage in real-time decision-making. AI Node delivers the horsepower to run modern neural networks in parallel and distill data from multiple high-resolution sensorswhich translates into faster innovation for enterprises and other organizations.

With AI Node, drone manufacturers, like Watts Innovations, can now easily build systems capable of running high performance AI algorithms onboard.

Some of our customers have very specific requirements necessitating a considerable amount of onboard computing, said Bobby Watts, CEO and principal engineer at Watts Innovations. For this, we turned toAuterionand AI Node, which allows us to run GPU intensive software onboard for applications such as vision-based precision landing, real-time mission navigation and other vision-based capabilities. Because AI Node is a part ofAuterions tight ecosystem, the integration and implementation is as clean as could be.

Other benefits of AI Node include:

Software developers, like Spleenlab, are enabling new and more advanced solutions for end customers. With AI Node, drone manufacturers and integrators can deploy Spleenlabs compute-heavy VISIONAIRY software and advanced AI algorithms directly onboard drones, said Stefan Milz, CEO of Spleenlab. This allows them to increase the safety of systems by executing tasks like ground-risk estimations. Working withAuterions AI Node is a win-win for us as providers and users of their software. We especially appreciate how easy it is to connect and collaborate with other manufacturers within their ecosystem.

Get in touchfor a demo and early access to AI Node for Skynode.

AboutAuterion

Auterionis building the worlds leading autonomous mobility platform for enterprise and government users to better capture data, carry out high-risk work remotely, and deliver goods with drones.Auterions open-source-based platform was nominated by the U.S. government as the standard for its future drone program. With 70+ employees across offices in California, Switzerland, and Germany,Auterions global customer base includes GE Aviation, Quantum-Systems, Freefly Systems, Avy, Watts Innovations, and the U.S. government.

Learn more aboutAuterionathttps://auterion.com/.

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