Sentricon Sovereign Autonomy Platform

A unified, sovereign autonomy stack powering land, air, and perimeter defence systems.

One Autonomy Stack.
Any Mission Profile.

Most autonomy solutions rely solely on generic obstacle avoidance and waypoint following.
Sentricon takes a fundamentally different approach.

Sentricon’s autonomy stack integrates terrain perception with a doctrine-driven autonomy that encodes military intent and behaviour models, enabling unmanned systems to interpret environment and objectives in a way that commanders expect, rather than rely solely on optimisation-driven heuristics.

Using AI-driven terrain classification, sensor fusion, and doctrinal behaviour libraries, the autonomy engine interprets the environment and acts in accordance with established military SOPs. Ensures autonomy behaves in ways commanders expect: consistent, predictable, and aligned with tactical doctrine rather than commercial robotics heuristics.” predictable, and tactically sound, rather than improvising like a commercial robotics system.

This fusion of AI perception and doctrine-based behaviour models is what enables Sentricon systems to operate safely and effectively in contested, cluttered, and dynamic battlespaces.

Encoding doctrine-driven autonomy as a governing layer ensures that autonomous actions reflect operational rules, constraints, and intent, which is fundamental for command confidence, operational assurance, and interoperability with human-led forces.

The Sentricon Sovereign Autonomy Platform delivers mission autonomy, multi-vehicle coordination, sensor fusion, operator control and secure communications within a single integrated system.
It forms the technological foundation of all Sentricon products, enabling nations to deploy adaptable, attritable autonomous systems across multiple defence domains, without reliance on foreign vendors.

Doctrine-Driven Autonomous Platform Architecture

Modern autonomous vehicles require more than navigation algorithms and sensor inputs. They require the ability to perceive terrain, interpret context, and act in accordance with operational intent under uncertain and contested conditions.

Sentricon’s platform architecture is built around a doctrine-driven autonomy stack that enables unmanned systems to operate with purpose, restraint, and predictability, much as a trained human operator would, while remaining fully under sovereign control.

Terrain Perception as the Foundation

At the foundation of the platform is a terrain perception system designed to understand the physical environment in operational terms, not simply detect obstacles.

The platform fuses data from LiDAR, electro-optical sensors, visual odometry, and complementary inputs to build a continuously updated representation of terrain, mobility constraints, line-of-movement options, and environmental risk. This perception layer enables reliable localisation, navigation, and manoeuvre even in degraded or GPS-denied environments.

Rather than relying on static maps or pre-planned routes, the system interprets terrain dynamically, allowing platforms to adapt movement and positioning as conditions change.

Doctrine-Driven Decision Making

Above the perception layer sits Sentricon’s doctrine engine, which represents the core differentiator of the platform. The doctrine engine governs how an unmanned system moves, navigates, and acts in response to its environment, mission objectives, and unfolding events. Rather than relying on scripted behaviours or purely optimisation-driven decision-making, the system applies defined operational doctrine, constraints, and rules to determine appropriate actions.

This approach allows the platform to respond to events in a controlled and interpretable manner, select actions that remain aligned with mission intent rather than short-term optimisation, and maintain predictable behaviour even under stress, uncertainty, or partial system degradation. In effect, the doctrine engine enables autonomous systems to operate in accordance with how a trained human operator or soldier would be expected to act within the same operational framework.

Intent-Based Autonomy

Outputs from the doctrine engine inform behaviour selection, navigation decisions, and platform actions, ensuring that movement planning, route selection, and task execution are governed by mission intent and operational constraints rather than efficiency alone. This approach enables systems to degrade gracefully instead of failing catastrophically, maintain consistent behaviour across different platforms and mission profiles, and provide transparent reasoning chains that are suitable for evaluation, assurance, and operational review.

The result is autonomy that is resilient, interpretable, and operationally trustworthy.

Platform-Agnostic, Sovereign by Design

Sentricon’s autonomy stack is platform-agnostic and designed to scale across air, ground, and integrated systems. It is engineered to support sovereign deployment, integration with national systems, and long-term sustainment without reliance on opaque third-party autonomy components. Integrated with our in-house power modules.

This architecture underpins all Sentricon systems, including WIDOWSWARM and SENTINEL-M, and aligns with allied expectations for controllability, predictability, and compliance.

Autonomy is not defined by how much decision-making is delegated to a machine, but by how well intent, doctrine, and control are preserved under real operational conditions. Sentricon’s platform architecture is designed accordingly.nce.

Core Autonomy Components

Sentricon’s platform comprises an adaptive mission autonomy layer for real-time execution under contested conditions, a multi-vehicle coordination layer for distributed tasking across domains, and an integrated sensor fusion and ISR stack that combines airborne, ground, and perimeter inputs into a unified situational picture.

Mission Autonomy

Adaptive mission logic, real-time autonomous execution built for contested environments..

Multi-Vehicle Coordination

Distributed LoRa/TCP-enabled fleet coordination across air, land, and sensor nodes.

Sensor Fusion & ISR

Unified processing of airborne, ground, and perimeter inputs for real-time situational awareness.

Sovereign Platform Architecture

Autonomy Engine

Mission logic, path planning, behaviours, state machines.

Sensor & ISR Stack

Sensor fusion, threat detection, environmental analysis.

Energy and Power

Energy systems designed in house for operation in extreme conditions.

Comms Layer

Secure LoRa/TCP architecture for distributed autonomy.

Designed for Multi-Domain Deployment

Air Systems

Air ISR & Swarm Systems Attritable ISR drones, coordinated flight groups, tactical recon systems.

Ground Systems

Ground Mobility & Support CASEVAC platforms, autonomous UGV systems, overwatch and targeting modules.

Perimeter & Fixed Systems

Perimeter & Fibre Sensing Detection of fibre-controlled drones, border security layers, optical sensing.

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