Ship smarter drones, faster
THE PROBLEM
Drone development is fragmented
Most drone manufacturers spend months assembling toolchains from scratch. Flight controller, companion computer, video, telemetry, ground control, fleet management. All separate. All incompatible.
ADOS reference designs collapse that into one pre-integrated stack. You start from a working baseline with onboard compute, HD video, and fleet management already wired together, then customize for your market.
REFERENCE DESIGNS
Two platforms in development
Each reference design will ship with integration documentation, board support packages, and the full software stack. Customize for your airframe and go. The lists below are design targets, not shipping specifications.
Flight controller, companion computer and radio, one stack.
Compact platform
5" reference drone
- AI-capable compute module with onboard inference
- Dedicated autopilot processor for real-time flight control
- HD digital video link, 20 to 50 km line of sight with a directional ground antenna
- 4G LTE cellular telemetry for BVLOS operations
- Full sensor suite: IMU, barometer, GPS, magnetometer
- Best for inspection, mapping and public safety
Payload platform
7-10" reference drone
- Extended platform with higher payload capacity
- Multi-sensor payload bay for mission-specific equipment
- HD digital video link, 20 to 50 km line of sight with a directional ground antenna
- 4G LTE cellular telemetry for BVLOS operations
- Redundant flight systems for commercial reliability
- Best for agriculture, delivery, and survey
WHY ADOS
The advantage for drone OEMs
Less integration, more building
Pre-integrated reference designs remove redundant engineering so you spend time on your product, not on wiring components together.
Months faster to market
Skip toolchain assembly and testing. Start from a purpose-built baseline and customize for your use case.
Purpose-built architecture
The reference designs put AI-capable compute, a dedicated autopilot processor, HD video and 4G LTE on one board. Until they land, the same software runs on off-the-shelf companion boards.
Any jurisdiction
Documentation frameworks that map to FAA, EASA, CASA, DGCA, and other authorities. One platform, deployable anywhere.
PARTNERSHIP
Three tiers, free software at every one
The partnership tiers and the hosted fleet-cloud comparison live on one page so there is a single price list.
Community is free and self-served: the GPLv3 agent and ground station, the public documentation and the SDKs. Professional adds integration and reference-design support. Enterprise adds a dedicated engineer, white-label fleet cloud and an SLA. Self-hosting the fleet cloud stays free on your own hardware at every tier.
EXTENSIONS
First-party extensions and the SDK
Mission Control and the agent extend through signed extensions. We publish first-party extensions for common payloads and ship an SDK so you can build your own, or ship a driver per SKU.
Follow-Me
Click a detected subject and the drone follows at a fixed distance and height, with a lock-state gate that stops commanding when the track is lost.
SIYI Optical Pod
Native driver for the SIYI pod line with per-model capability negotiation: gimbal, zoom, thermal, and a laser rangefinder with subject geolocation.
MAVLink Gimbal v2
MAVLink Gimbal v2 manager control, region-of-interest lock, and an aim-at-target visual servo with a lock-state safety gate.
Vision Navigation
GPS-denied position hold from downward optical flow, with a scale ladder and a per-mode pre-arm gate, for ArduPilot, PX4, and iNav.
Driver layer
A first-class extension pattern for cameras, gimbals, LiDAR, GPS, ESCs, and actuators.
Your own
Author signed, capability-gated extensions for your hardware and ship them via the registry.