The payload rail powers the mission sensor and destabilizes the navigation feed.
The next flight window needs payload operation, while the navigation interface needs a clean electrical path.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I had to explain why the vehicle dropped navigation before we even reached the mission run.”
Spyros Gomes · Autonomy Program Manager
Owns readiness evidence for an unmanned aerial system entering a field-test campaign.
What is at stake
The vehicle loses PNT/GPS/INS input whenever the payload rail comes on. You have to weigh a fast harness revision against proof that it will survive powered HIL and field checks.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- flight-window urgency vs. powered evidence
- software tolerance vs. physical fault removal
- airframe routing limits vs. clean navigation signals
- bench confidence vs. field validation
Why Applied Intuition
Axion autonomy software depends on dependable links between onboard sensors, PNT/GPS/INS, and embedded Linux hardware during live UAV testing.
Written with these in mind
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