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2025 Finalist Award Optical UAS Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments

In step with the White House Executive Order to reinforce U.S. leadership, we’re delivering visionary UAS innovation for safer, smarter, more secure drone operations.

Small, Smart, and Unstoppable:
Optical Navigation for UAS. A compact AI-vision module unlocking lightweight, cost-effective autonomy.

OpticaNavi: GPS-Independent Navigation for UAS

GPS is a single point of failure. Jamming and spoofing are routine electronic warfare tactics, and even civil operations lose signal in urban canyons, mountains, and dense canopy.

OpticaNavi is a vision-based, AI-enabled navigation module delivering position, navigation, and timing with no satellite or radio signal. Passive optical sensing alone — nothing to detect, jam, or spoof. Live camera imagery is matched against compact terrain maps built in advance from commercial satellite imagery. No mapping flights required.

It emulates a standard GPS receiver over NMEA 0183, u-blox UBX, and MAVLink, so it drops into existing platforms with no firmware changes. 69.6 × 45 mm, 170 g, 7–25 W. All processing onboard.

New Optical UAV Navigation
for GPS-Denied Environments

Optical Backup Navigation​
OpticaNavi is a plug-and-play navigation module that provides backup navigation by emulating standard GPS interfaces.
Lightweight Low-Cost Module
Designed for small- and medium-sized drones, with hardware costing less than $400
Universal UAS Integration
Modular, can integrate easily with any UAS, emulates GPS interface
Absolute & Relative Positioning
Provides absolute (AP) and relative (RP) positioning to ensure drone location & stabilization
Offline Geospatial Mapping Capability
Uses compressed area maps preprocessed by AI, and can work without recent satellite imagery (Google Maps)

What is OpticaNavi

How OpticaNavi Works

Optimized Computer Vision

Computer vision optimized for autonomous outdoor UAS navigation using NVIDIA Orin GPU (67 TOPS Edge AI)

Optimized Computer Vision

Combination of traditional image feature extraction algorithms and lightweight AI models for maximum reliability & efficiency

Lightweight AI Models

Low latency enabled by custom CUDA C++ code high-performance parallel computing: ~15 msec for RP, ~100 msec for AP

Preflight AI Map Generation

Optimizes UAS CPU/GPU workload through our intensive preflight computations (map generation using Web Mercator projection, AI feature extraction, dependencies calculation, data compression)

OpticaNavi Compared to Other Drone Solutions AI-Vision Edge Navigation for GPS-Denied and Jam-Resilient UAS

OpticaNavi adds passive AI vision as an independent positioning source, cross-validated against onboard inertial, magnetic, and altitude sensors. Combining video-based AI perception with advanced mathematical algorithms heavily optimized for edge computation, it computes position from the terrain itself rather than from any external signal — enabling drone localization in GPS-denied environments within a small, lightweight hardware module.

Resilient, Anti-Jamming Navigation
for Small-to-Medium Drones

Because OpticaNavi transmits and receives nothing, there is no signal for an adversary to jam or spoof — a fundamental advantage over RF-dependent alternatives, delivered in a miniaturized and highly cost-efficient form suited to small and medium drones. Critically, the InZero module is not reliant on the recent satellite imagery that existing optical solutions require.

OpticaNavi Prototype
using the
Jetson Orin Nano Super

OpticaNavi:

Simple, practical, low cost, easy-to-use drone solution
for the GPS-denied environment.

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For additional OpticaNavi™️ information, demonstration or other inquiry,
please call us  at 1-703-636-2048
or info@inzerosystems.com.

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