Euronext | MLUAV | € 46.00 | 06/08/2026

Autopilot KAI

High-Integrity | Kinetic with AI

High-performance flight control system with embedded AI for tactical, industrial operations. Developed to ensure maximum robustness in complex environments, it integrates neural processing, 4G BLOS communications, and safety-critical computing.

Veronte Autopilot KAI for loitering munition and C-UAS
Embedded AI Embedded AI
Computer Vision Computer Vision
Target Tracking Target Tracking
GNSS-Denied Navigation GNSS-Denied Navigation
Cloud Connectivity Cloud Connectivity

High-Integrity AI Autonomy Control

Dual-layer design for safety-critical flight control and AI engine

Model-Based Design

Model-Based Design

A Simulink-like interface enables users to visually create sophisticated programs. This intuitive environment ensures that safety-critical functions remain within a stable, deterministic, and verified flight envelope as per the DO-178C certification standard.
Embedded AI

Embedded AI

The dedicated neural engine performs real-time computer vision tasks, including GNSS-denied navigation, object detection, target classification, and visual tracking. It enables autonomy and autonomous decision-making based on high-frequency visual data.
Custom C++ Code

Custom C++ Code

Developers can import specialized modules directly into the autopilot as program blocks. This allows for the integration of unique flight logic while maintaining the strict execution integrity required for the core control system.
Surveillance drone with camera gimbal over a city skyline, representing the autopilot flexibility for any vehicle layout

Ready for Any Vehicle: Vision-Based Control

The high-performance AI core enables flight control based on visual input for complex maneuvers. The flexible AI architecture enables specialized performance providing a unified technology core fro drone control:

Intelligence & Safety

The KAI framework features a dual-layer architecture that isolates high-performance AI processing from the deterministic flight control stack for safety-critical tasks. Control phases, safety routines, neural logic, and guidance can be optimized to ensure absolute stability during complex autonomous operations.

Safety-Critical

Safety-Critical

The core flight stack is developed under strict DO-178C and DO-254 standards, providing a high-integrity environment for mission-critical operations. This deterministic layer manages vital functions such as GNC and secure warhead activation with absolute reliability and safety.
A comprehensive suite of configuration tools allows users to define custom flight phases, failsafe routines, and automated programs. This modularity ensures that the autopilot can be tailored to the specific safety requirements and operational logic of any tactical or industrial platform.

Embedded Computer Vision

Embedded Computer Vision

The integrated neural engine leverages cutting-edge AI to perform advanced visual tasks like GNSS-denied navigation and high-precision target tracking. These AI-driven algorithms allow the system to identify, classify, and follow objects in real time across dynamic environments.
This intelligent processing core accelerates environmental perception and allows rapid iterations, making it easier to adapt the AI vision logic to new target profiles or sensor configurations, all while maintaining the high-frequency execution needed for tactical and industrial missions.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

The KAI architecture integrates advanced encryption and secure data-link protocols to protect mission-critical information from interception or spoofing. This high-integrity environment includes automated data-wipe functions and hardware-level security to prevent unauthorized access or technology recovery in contested zones.
A comprehensive security framework ensures compliance with the latest aviation cybersecurity standards, safeguarding the system against malicious firmware or external interference. This robust protection allows integrators to deploy tactical platforms with absolute confidence in data integrity and operational secrecy.

Strategic Applications

The KAI system leverages embedded computer vision to provide absolute localization in GNSS-denied environments and real-time target tracking, enabling tactical platforms to execute complex missions with high autonomy and precision.

  • Loitering Munition

    Terminal guidance is optimized through advanced vision-based target lock, secure arming logic, and autonomous flight profiles recorded in the mission system. Final maneuvers include specialized dive profiles to ensure payload impact and eliminate potential navigation drift during terminal phases.

  • Counter UAS

    Tactical engagement is optimized through lead-pursuit calculation, including radar-slaved guidance and high-G intercept logic, ensuring the identification of agile threats. Final maneuvers include AI-driven signature tracking to ensure precise collision and eliminate potential escape during high-speed engagement.

  • Industrial

    Industrial versatility is enhanced through the miniaturized form factor and embedded computer vision, enabling high-autonomy performance across a variety of complex commercial applications. Final profiles include GNSS-denied localization to ensure mission safety and eliminate potential signal loss during critical tasks.

Compact & Lightweight

Compact & Lightweight

The miniaturized design of Veronte Autopilot KAI concentrates all flight control and AI functions into a lightweight 190 g unit, also available in OEM format for further weight reduction. It features advanced sensors, IMU, GNSS, and barometer, integrated in the core hardware. High-performance functions such as neural edge computing and vision-based positioning are fully embedded within the system.  

Computer Vision & Advanced Sensors

High-performance functions such as AI computing and vision-based positioning remain fully embedded. The system manages real-time computer vision, inertial navigation, 4G/LTE positioning, and barometer data through advanced sensor fusion algorithms. External sensors such as radar altimeters, FOG IMUs, and diverse positioning sources can be easily integrated into the data fusion.

State of the Art GNSS-Denied Navigation

Pre-mapped Areas

Pre-mapped Areas

KAI utilizes terrain matching to correlate live camera feeds with stored imagery for drift-free absolute positioning. The architecture allows for the seamless integration of FOG IMUs and advanced external positioning systems to further increase navigational precision.

Non-premapped Areas

Non-premapped Areas

KAI enables autonomous operation in unknown territory through real-time visual odometry and SLAM for precise local state estimation. This vision-based navigation framework supports diverse external sensors to maintain absolute accuracy even in the most contested environments.

Advanced Sensor Fusion

Advanced Sensor Fusion

KAI combines internal IMUs, magnetometer, barometer, and pitot with LTE triangulation and visual inputs into a multi-layered filter for mission continuity. The high-integrity fusion engine processes data from these redundant sources to ensure stable and reliable navigation in GNSS-restricted zones.

Advanced Performance Features

Cutting-edge AI processing and high-integrity flight control are concentrated in Veronte KAI, delivering specialized features and autonomy capabilities for mission-critical success.

Target Tracking

AI-driven algorithms for high-precision tracking of moving assets or targets.

Autonomous Engagement

Specialized logic for calculating optimal approach or intercept vectors in real-time.

Swarm Coordination

Simultaneous control of multiple units with decentralized decision-making.

High-Velocity Pathing

Smooth, fluid paths optimized for high-speed engagement or urgent delivery.

Integrated RTK Precision

Centimeter-level positioning for precise navigation to the mission zone.

Global Mass Production

Scalable manufacturing with production facilities in Spain, USA, and UAE to meet high-volume demand.

Fly-by-Camera Logic

Flight autonomy guided by the camera seeker or gimbal pointing direction

Moving Vehicle Ops

Autonomous takeoff and landing from ground or maritime mobile platforms.

3D Curve Navigation

Advanced path planning using continuous 3D curves for fluid mission dynamics.

Data Wipe & Recording

Configurable black box for logging and telemetry data with secure data-wipe capabilities for sensitive missions.