Praesidium Defence Sovereign Autonomy Platform
A unified, sovereign autonomy stack powering land, air, and perimeter defence systems
A Different Approach to Defence Autonomy
Most autonomous systems rely primarily on obstacle avoidance, waypoint navigation, and optimisation-driven decision logic derived from commercial robotics.
Praesidium takes a fundamentally different approach.
The Praesidium Sovereign Autonomy Platform integrates advanced terrain perception with doctrine-informed autonomy, enabling unmanned systems to interpret environments and mission intent in a manner aligned with established operational principles and commander expectations.
Rather than relying solely on heuristic optimisation, the platform applies structured intent, constraints, and behaviour models to ensure autonomy remains predictable, interpretable, and controllable.
Doctrine-Informed Autonomy
Using AI-driven terrain classification, multi-sensor fusion, and configurable behaviour libraries, the autonomy engine evaluates environmental context and mission objectives within defined operational constraints. This approach ensures autonomous behaviour remains consistent and predictable, aligned with operational intent, and governed by explicit rules and constraints. It also enables autonomy that is suitable for assurance, formal evaluation, and integration alongside human-led forces. Autonomy within the Praesidium platform is designed to support command decision-making and operational effectiveness, not to replace human authority or judgement.
Terrain Perception as the Foundation
At the foundation of the platform is a terrain perception layer designed to understand the environment in operational terms, rather than simply detecting obstacles. The platform fuses inputs from LiDAR, electro-optical sensors, visual odometry, and complementary navigation sources to build a continuously updated understanding of terrain features, mobility constraints, routes of movement, and environmental risk. This supports reliable localisation, navigation, and manoeuvre even in GPS-degraded environments. Rather than relying on static maps or pre-planned routes, the system interprets terrain dynamically and adapts movement and positioning as conditions evolve.
Doctrine-Informed Decision Logic
Above the perception layer sits Praesidium’s doctrine engine, which serves as the platform’s core differentiator. The doctrine engine governs how unmanned systems move, navigate, and respond to mission objectives and environmental changes by applying defined operational rules, constraints, and intent. This enables controlled and interpretable responses to events, ensures behaviour remains aligned with mission objectives rather than short-term optimisation, and supports predictable operation under uncertainty or partial system degradation. As a result, autonomous behaviour remains aligned with how systems are expected to operate within a defined operational framework, rather than improvising actions based solely on efficiency.
Intent-Based Autonomy
Outputs from the doctrine engine guide behaviour selection, navigation decisions, and task execution in accordance with defined mission intent and operational constraints. This approach enables autonomous systems to degrade gracefully rather than fail catastrophically, maintain consistent behaviour across different platforms and mission profiles, and provide transparent reasoning that is suitable for evaluation and assurance. The result is autonomy that is resilient, interpretable, and operationally trustworthy.
Platform-Agnostic, Sovereign by Design
The Praesidium autonomy stack is platform-agnostic and designed to scale across air, ground, and fixed systems. It supports sovereign deployment and configuration, integration with national systems, and long-term sustainment without dependency on opaque third-party autonomy components. The platform integrates with Praesidium’s in-house energy and power modules and underpins all Praesidium systems, including WIDOWSWARM and SENTINEL-M.
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
Praesidium platforms comprise 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 and supervised autonomous execution designed for degraded and contested environments
Multi-Vehicle Coordination
Distributed LoRa/TCP-enabled coordination across air, ground, and sensor nodes.
Sensor Fusion & ISR
Unified processing of airborne, ground, and perimeter sensor inputs to generate a coherent situational picture.
Sovereign Platform Architecture
Autonomy Engine
Mission logic, behaviours, state management, and path planning.
Sensor & ISR Stack
Sensor fusion, environmental analysis, and situational awareness.
Energy and Power
In-house designed energy systems optimised for resilience and endurance.
Comms Layer
Secure LoRa/TCP architecture enabling distributed autonomy under degraded conditions.
Designed for Multi-Domain Deployment
Air Systems
Attritable ISR platforms, coordinated flight groups, and tactical reconnaissance systems.
Ground Systems
Autonomous mobility platforms, CASEVAC support systems, and supervised mission modules.
Perimeter & Fixed Systems
Perimeter sensing, fibre-controlled drone detection, and optical monitoring systems
Why Defence Organisations Engage with Praesidium
- ✔Sovereign-controlled autonomy
- ✔ Doctrine-informed, intent-preserving design
- ✔ Modular and domain-agnostic architecture
- ✔ Rapid iteration and adaptation cycles
- ✔ Built from real frontline requirements
- ✔ Integration with existing systems and infrastructure
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