Auterion adds Spleenlab AI to its open-source drone modules

Open-source flight control tech company Auterion is teaming up with German artificial intelligence (AI) software specialist Spleenlab to provide tiny but powerful supercomputing capacities aboard drones for business and government users.

Auterion said inclusion of Spleenlab’s Vionary Perception software and ML algorithm as part of its ecosystem opens the way for safe, AI-based, fully autonomous drone use in infrastructure detection and inspection missions with enhanced collision avoidance capabilities. To do so, Auterion has plugged Spleenlab programming into its Skynode and AI Node modules, which contain all the flight controller, mission computer, and connectivity tech drones use while in flight. 

The upshot is an all-in-one product enterprise and public UAV operators can rely on for safe, autonomous inspections, using drones whose onboard computing allows them to understand surrounding environments and avoid collisions. That perception power also…