Xorian Industries
Xorian Industries is a defence-tech company engineering autonomous drone systems, real-time telemetry infrastructure, and embedded firmware for surveillance, logistics, and tactical UAV applications.
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The next generation of defence and logistics operations will be defined by autonomous aerial systems — but building reliable drone software is among the most technically demanding challenges in engineering.
Xorian Industries is at the frontier: designing autonomous flight systems, sensor fusion algorithms, and the real-time telemetry infrastructure that keeps operators informed in contested environments.
I led the embedded systems and backend engineering: firmware architecture for the flight control system, real-time telemetry streaming (WebSocket + InfluxDB), the operator ground control interface, and the CI/CD pipeline for embedded firmware delivery.
Embedded Systems & Engineering Summary
Project overview
Xorian Industries is a defence-tech company building the software backbone of autonomous aerial systems — from embedded flight control firmware to real-time telemetry infrastructure and operator ground control interfaces.
Operating across surveillance, logistics, and tactical UAV applications, Xorian's systems are engineered for the most demanding environments: contested RF environments, GPS-denied navigation, and hard real-time control loops.
Embedded systems engineering
The flight control system firmware runs on STM32H7 microcontrollers with a hard real-time RTOS (FreeRTOS). The control loop executes at 1kHz with deterministic scheduling guarantees, processing IMU, barometer, GPS, and optical flow sensor fusion through an Extended Kalman Filter for state estimation.
Autonomous waypoint navigation is built on a custom path planning stack with dynamic obstacle avoidance. The system supports GPS-denied indoor flight using optical flow and VIO (Visual Inertial Odometry) with a downward-facing camera and IMU fusion.
Telemetry & ground control
Real-time telemetry streaming uses a dual-channel architecture: a low-latency WebSocket stream for live flight data (position, attitude, battery, sensor health) at 10Hz, and a MAVLink 2 channel over encrypted radio link for command and control.
The operator Ground Control Station (GCS) is built as a React application with a MapLibre GL-based situational awareness view, live telemetry dashboards, mission planning tools, and a command interface for autonomous mission upload and in-flight modification.
Key capabilities
- Hard real-time 1kHz flight control loop on STM32H7.
- Extended Kalman Filter sensor fusion (IMU, GPS, barometer, optical flow).
- GPS-denied autonomous navigation via VIO.
- Encrypted MAVLink 2 command and control channel.
- 10Hz real-time telemetry WebSocket stream.
- React-based GCS with live situational awareness map.
- Autonomous mission planning with dynamic obstacle avoidance.
- OTA firmware delivery with A/B partition rollback safety.
Outcomes
- 1kHz deterministic control loop in production flight hardware.
- GPS-denied autonomous navigation operational.
- Encrypted real-time telemetry with 10Hz update rate.
- OTA firmware updates with zero-downtime rollback.
