Achieving true autonomy.

Space · Aeronautics · Defence

41.7957° N · 12.2505° E · Rome, Italy

Selected as

Leonardo S.p.A. Team for Innovation

Incubated at

ESA Business Incubation Centre Lazio

Mission

GNSS-denied
GNSS-degraded

Enabling GNSS-denied and GNSS-degraded navigation for autonomous aircraft through onboard neural processing of Earth-Observation satellite data.

The product

MONDRIAN VPS

Visual Positioning System

MONDRIAN fuses onboard imagery, inertial data and preloaded Earth-Observation maps into an absolute position fix — no satellite signal needed. Delivered as a dedicated software + hardware package.

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Where it operates

01 Defence Electronic-warfare-proof solution for asset protection and resilient navigation. → 02 Security & Surveillance Reconnaissance drones with visual navigation, mapping and image processing, integrable with BMS. → 03 Logistics Autonomous transport drones for resupply and package delivery. → 04 Emergency Mission continuity for critical operations such as search and rescue (SAR). → 05 Industry Autonomous inspection and survey of sites, plants and infrastructure in GNSS-degraded environments. →

Field references

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Our path

From proof of concept to pilot-ready

Phase 01 · 2025

Leonardo S.p.A. - Proof of Concept

A funded PoC with Leonardo's Autonomous Systems laboratory - and selection as a Leonardo S.p.A. Team for Innovation.

Phase 02 · current

ESA Business Incubation

Where MONDRIAN VPS matures now - technical validation, IP protection and pilot-ready maturity.

Phase 03 · next

2026→

Field pilots & series integration

Deployment with UAV OEMs, system integrators and mission-critical operators across Europe.

Let the mission continue.

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MONDRIAN.

Visual Positioning System

Preloaded EO maps

High-resolution EO maps, preprocessed and stored onboard as the reference layer.

Visual matching

Neural networks compare live camera imagery with preloaded maps - no external signals.

UAV · Kit

Plug-and-play kit

camera + compute + software

HW
+ SW

ONBOARD

MONDRIAN is a neural positioning engine — fusing onboard imaging, inertial data and preloaded Earth-Observation references into an absolute fix. It runs as software on existing avionics, or ships as a purpose-built camera-and-compute kit.

MONDRIAN sensor module - camera and embedded compute

Sensor module · camera + compute

How MONDRIAN works

Four stages · fully onboard

01 · Pre-mission

EO Map Loading

High-resolution Earth-Observation maps are preloaded onto the system for the mission area.

02 · In-flight

Live Image Acquisition

A nadir-facing camera continuously captures the terrain below, regulated by an onboard software pipeline.

03 · Matching

Neural Networks

Two neural subsystems pair live imagery to the preloaded map and recover an absolute positioning fix.

04 · Output

Standard Output

The absolute fix is injected into the navigation loop in a standard GNSS format.

What sets it apart

04 properties

Fully onboard

No datalink, no ground station, no dependency.

GPU native

Real-time neural inference on embedded hardware.

AI enabled

Networks match imagery to references for an absolute fix.

Plug & play

COTS, ITAR-free, integrable with leading UAV units.

Visual matching · real output

A live frame, matched to the map.

Live nadir frame

Reference map

Fiumicino · Rome

RAYSILIENCE Simulation Environment

Position accuracy

< 3 mCEP

CEP refers to CEP50. All accuracy figures are measured under nominal operating conditions.

60 HzUpdate rate

< 20 sTime-to-first-fix

MAVLinkStandard navigation message

Space-enabled

Powered by European Earth-Observation data.

Reference maps are built from Earth-Observation services, and MONDRIAN is compatible with every satellite-imagery provider — public and private. Testing so far has been run entirely on European data, from ESA's Sentinel-2 mission.

Achieving true autonomy.

Enabling GNSS-denied and GNSS-degraded navigation for autonomous aircraft through onboard neural processing of Earth-Observation satellite data.

MONDRIAN VPS

Let the mission continue.

MONDRIAN.

A live frame, matched to the map.

Powered by European Earth-Observation data.

A European answer to a contested sky.

Raysilience was born inside Sapienza's aerospace student community in Rome, and is now an incorporated innovative startup.

Let's talk.

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