Drone manufacturer, Draganfly, and AI solutions provider, Palladyne AI Corp. have announced their intention to collaborate to enhance Draganfly’s UAV platforms with Palladyne’s Pilot AI software. In their release of the news, the companies state that their collaboration will be a “powerful synergy (that) enhances detection, tracking, classification, and identification while also enabling autonomous drone swarm operations, including self-organizing collaboration.”
Palladyne Pilot is an intelligent swarming and collaborative AI software that allows multiple drones to be linked into one team, all with one operator. The software uses sensor fusion to track targets while interfacing with autopilots.
Draganfly has become a trusted drone solutions provider which government, defense and commercial operations have relied on for years. Now, with the integration of Palladyne Pilot, the company says its customers will “gain expanded mission capabilities such as autonomous swarm operations, real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and enhanced operator efficiency.”
In a statement, Draganfly’s CEO Cameron Chell explained how this strategic partnership will propel the company’s services.
“Palladyne AI is enabling drone platforms to incorporate autonomy features that were even recently limited to large and costly systems. By having Palladyne Pilot as an embedded option into our platforms, we continue to expand our modular framework and increase our adaptable, mission-critical autonomy, and swarm capabilities that reduce operator workload and extend the effectiveness of our systems across complex use cases.”
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