Deneb Systems
Raven, Alien, Vulture, and Sky Tracker - perception, guidance, and flight control built as one stack.
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Deneb Systems builds the airframes and the perception, guidance, and flight-control software they fly with. Deneb Aero connects aircraft geometry, aerodynamic analysis, and flight simulation in one workspace.
Autonomous VTOL platform
A largely 3D-printed autonomous VTOL aircraft. Raven launches vertically on four lift rotors, transitions to efficient fixed-wing cruise, and runs complete payload-delivery and ISR missions on its own - proven from digital twin to first flight.
Autonomous interceptor
A vision-guided autonomous interceptor development platform. Alien visually acquires an airborne target and continuously corrects its flight path during pursuit - no target GPS required.
Autonomous loitering munition UAV
Vulture is an autonomous loitering munition UAV designed to find, identify, and destroy selected targets.
Aerial tracking SDK
A C++ tracking core installable as a Python package. Lock onto a target in one call and get its position every frame - tested at 32+ FPS on a Raspberry Pi live stream, with no GPU and no cloud.
Aircraft design & simulation
From aircraft CAD to a flight model in one browser workspace. Import STEP or STL geometry, configure controls, run CFD across angles of attack and control deflections, and inspect pressure, lift, drag and moments. Build a Gazebo flight model and export the aircraft, world and simulation settings.
Explore the free AeroLab demo and recorded CAD-to-flight walkthrough today. Hosted CFD and flight for your own aircraft are in development; join the early-access waitlist.
3D printing
3D-printing software for UAV wings and airframe parts. Converts a solid into a vase-mode STL — one loop per layer, optional diamond truss — so FDM printers can spiral-print a light, stiff part. Runs in the browser.
Stack
Deneb Systems is the vision core, the guidance, the flight control, and the aircraft — not a camera kit bolted onto someone else's platform.
Perception
Camera-based detection and persistent visual tracking. Sky Tracker runs on CPU, including Raspberry Pi class hardware, with no GPU and no cloud.
Guidance
Image-relative motion and inertial fusion turn pixels into flight corrections. No target GPS required.
Flight
Raven, Alien, and Vulture fly that loop onboard — VTOL cargo, interceptor, and loitering munition — with ArduPilot in the control path.
Simulation
Gazebo and software-in-the-loop come first. Hardware flies after the same stack has already been exercised against moving aerial targets.
Status
First flights, visual tracking, and simulation are listed separately from work that has only been shown in the loop. We do not publish development targets as production specifications.
| Work | Status |
|---|---|
| Raven VTOL first flight | Demonstrated |
| Alien interceptor first flight | Demonstrated |
| Vulture first flight | Demonstrated |
| Sky Tracker CPU tracking on live video | Demonstrated |
| Camera-based target detection | Demonstrated |
| Persistent visual tracking | Demonstrated |
| Gazebo interceptor simulation | Demonstrated |
| Autonomous pursuit logic | Demonstrated in simulation |
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