Use Case - Indoor Asset Inspection
Indoor Inspection, Inventory and Security Drones
Warehouses and industrial facilities are the clearest case for GPS-denied autonomy. There is no satellite fix between the racks, the aisles are narrow, and the work is repetitive. A VOXL-powered drone localizes with visual inertial odometry, avoids obstacles with on-board depth sensing, and flies the same route every night without a pilot.
What Operators Use It For
- Checking and managing inventory remotely, scanning pallet locations far faster than a manual count.
- Checking security alerts and confirming facilities have been locked up.
- Patrolling a warehouse after hours and returning to a dock to recharge.
Who Is Doing It on VOXL
| Company | What they built |
|---|---|
| Gather AI | Starling 2 Logis inventory drones on VOXL 2, scanning up to 1,500 pallets an hour in aisles as narrow as 4 feet 5 inches. |
| Corvus Drones | Corax, a docking, fully autonomous indoor drone on VOXL 2 for persistent warehouse monitoring and security patrol. |
| Cleo Robotics | The Dronut, a ducted indoor drone whose team chose VOXL over NVIDIA options for size, performance and power. |
"We looked at other products from NVIDIA. None of them met the criteria we required for the Dronut. VOXL meets all the criteria, and its credit-card size enables the Dronut to operate with high performance and low power, bundled in a small form factor." Omar Eleryan, Cleo Robotics. Read the case study.
Start Here
Starling 2 Max is the development drone most indoor teams start on, with time-of-flight depth and about 55 minutes of flight time. For your own airframe, VOXL 2 and VOXL 2 Mini carry the same autonomy stack, and the image sensor options include the PMD time-of-flight depth sensor that indoor mapping relies on.