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Build vehicles that fly without a pilot.
Take them from flight dynamics to navigation without satellites.

Flight dynamics, control, state estimation and navigation without GNSS, then autonomy, mission planning and safe operation for drones and other autonomous vehicles.

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6 Build projects

PX4 Autopilot stack

Autonomous Systems & Drones Bootcamp

Flying a vehicle is easy until something stops working: the GPS signal is jammed, the wind picks up, the link drops. This bootcamp is about the engineering that keeps working when the assumptions fail, from flight dynamics and control through state estimation and navigation without satellites, to autonomy and safe operation.

You start with the physics of how multirotors and fixed-wing aircraft fly, write a flight controller of your own, then work in the open-source PX4 stack and simulators. Navigation without GNSS is the centre of the programme: visual-inertial odometry, SLAM and the estimation theory underneath them.

It is written for engineers, pilots and developers who want to build autonomous vehicles, for robotics and software people moving into aerospace, and for anyone in the civil and defence drone sector who needs to understand the systems rather than only operate them.

Curriculum Summary

Flight Dynamics

Multirotor and Fixed-Wing Control

Autopilots

State Estimation

Sensor Fusion

GNSS Vulnerabilities

Visual-Inertial Odometry

SLAM

Path Planning

Mission Autonomy

Onboard AI

Regulation and Safety

Learn. Build. Launch.

Simulation-first labs

Every unit runs in simulation first, with injected wind, sensor faults and signal loss, so failures happen on a screen and not in the air.

Six build projects

Each unit's work accumulates into projects you can run, show and explain, ending in a capstone flight system.

The open-source stack

PX4, ROS 2, physics simulators and the leading open visual-inertial pipelines, the tools drone teams use in practice.

Navigation without satellites

A full unit and a project on GNSS-denied navigation, the part of autonomy that matters most when conditions turn hostile.

Alongside the Academy courses

The bootcamp sits beside the Academy's courses on drone flight, GNSS-denied autonomy and turbojet engineering, which you can take on their own for extra depth.

AI study assistants

Round-the-clock help from the Academy's AI study assistants, for the mathematics, the code and the debugging.

Master the Autonomy Stack

PX4, ROS 2, physics simulators and the leading open visual-inertial pipelines, the tools drone teams use in practice.

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Build Flight Systems That Survive the Real World

Each project is a vehicle, or a part of one, flown in simulation and built to survive the failures the real world will supply.

Flight Simulator and Controller

Fault-Tolerant State Estimator

GNSS-Denied Navigation Pipeline

Obstacle-Avoiding Autonomy Stack

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Capstone: Resilient Autonomous Flight System

By completing our Bootcamp, you'll obtain the expertise required to thrive in autonomy and aerospace roles.

Every unit ends in something you build. You leave with projects you can run, show and explain, and the understanding to take on what comes next.

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Roles in civil and defence aviation, robotics and autonomy, where vehicles are built, tested and operated.

Autonomy Engineer

Design the perception, planning and decision software that lets a vehicle operate without constant human control.

Flight Controls Engineer

Design, tune and verify the control laws that keep a vehicle stable and responsive.

Navigation Engineer

Build the estimation and localisation systems that tell a vehicle where it is, with or without satellites.

Aerospace Engineer

Work across aerodynamics, propulsion, systems and testing on aircraft and uncrewed vehicles.

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Drone Systems Engineer

Integrate airframe, sensors, compute, communications and software into a vehicle that works as a whole.

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Unit 1

Flight and Vehicle Dynamics

How an aircraft moves, written as equations you can simulate.

Aerodynamics Basics

Coordinate Frames

Rigid-Body Dynamics

The simulator you write here is the test bench for every unit that follows.

Core Overview

Forces and moments, coordinate frames, and the dynamics of multirotors and fixed-wing aircraft. You study lift, drag and thrust, why a banked turn behaves the way it does, and how propulsion shapes performance, then turn the models into a working simulation.

Foundation

Aerodynamics Basics

Coordinate Frames

Rigid-Body Dynamics

Multirotor Models

Fixed-Wing Models

Propulsion

Aircraft Turns

Flight Simulation

Unit 2

Flight Control

Making an unstable machine hold still, then go where it is told.

PID Cascades

Attitude Control

Position Control

Flight logs become your main teacher, read the way an accident investigator reads them.

Core Overview

Cascaded PID control of attitude, rate and position, state-space design, and tuning against wind, payload changes and actuator limits. You write your own flight controller, then move to PX4: parameters, modes, logs and the failsafes that decide what a vehicle does when something goes wrong.

Foundation

PID Cascades

Attitude Control

Position Control

State-Space Control

Tuning

PX4 Autopilot

Flight Modes

Failsafes

Log Analysis

Unit 3

Sensing and State Estimation

Knowing where the vehicle is, how fast it is moving and how sure you are.

IMUs

Magnetometers

Barometers

The unit ends with an estimator that detects and survives a degraded satellite signal.

Core Overview

Inertial sensors, magnetometers, barometers and GNSS receivers, their error sources and their failure modes. You build Kalman and extended Kalman filters, fuse sensors, and learn how jamming and spoofing look in the data, and why an estimator needs to notice.

Foundation

IMUs

Magnetometers

Barometers

GNSS Fundamentals

Kalman Filters

Extended Kalman Filters

Sensor Fusion

Jamming and Spoofing

Fault Detection

Unit 4

Navigation Without GNSS

Flying when the satellites go away.

Visual-Inertial Odometry

VINS

SLAM

This is the centre of the programme, and it sits beside the Academy's courses on GNSS-denied autonomy.

Core Overview

Visual-inertial odometry, SLAM, LiDAR odometry, terrain-relative and map-based localisation, and how to combine them into a navigation system that degrades gracefully. You study the leading open-source pipelines, benchmark them, and learn why they drift and what to do about it.

Foundation

Visual-Inertial Odometry

VINS

SLAM

LiDAR Odometry

Loop Closure

Terrain-Relative Navigation

Map-Based Localisation

Drift and Benchmarking

Resilient Navigation

Unit 5

Autonomy and Mission Planning

Deciding what to do next, with nobody holding the controls.

3D Path Planning

Obstacle Avoidance

Behaviour Trees

Every behaviour is tested in simulation under injected failures before it is allowed anywhere near a real vehicle.

Core Overview

Path planning and obstacle avoidance in three dimensions, mission logic with state machines and behaviour trees, target detection and tracking with onboard neural networks, and coordination between vehicles. You work within real compute and power budgets, and learn where onboard AI helps and where it adds risk.

Foundation

3D Path Planning

Obstacle Avoidance

Behaviour Trees

State Machines

Object Detection

Target Tracking

Onboard Inference

Multi-Vehicle Coordination

Mission Planning

Unit 6

Operations, Regulation and Safety

Flying lawfully and safely is an engineering problem too.

Airspace

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The capstone is a complete autonomous flight system, specified, simulated, tested and written up.

Core Overview

Airspace and the rules that govern it, with the EU open category as the worked example, operational risk assessment, command-and-control links, flight testing practice, maintenance and record-keeping. You also work through the ethics of dual-use systems, since the same autonomy stack serves survey, rescue and defence.

Foundation

Airspace

EU Open Category

Operational Risk Assessment

Command and Control Links

Flight Testing

Maintenance

Ethics of Dual-Use

Safety Cases

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Make vehicles that fly themselves, and keep flying when the satellites, the link or the plan goes away. Flight dynamics, control, estimation, navigation and autonomy.

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Autonomous Systems & Drones Bootcamp

Revolution inspiring a new generation of global AI leaders

Build vehicles that fly without a pilot. Take them from flight dynamics to navigation without satellites.

Learn. Build. Launch.

Real stories from teams who transformed with LunarTech.

Build Flight Systems That Survive the Real World

By completing our Bootcamp, you'll obtain the expertise required to thrive in autonomy and aerospace roles.

Autonomy Engineer

Flight Controls Engineer

Navigation Engineer

Aerospace Engineer

Drone Systems Engineer

LUNARTECH Revolutionizes

In a rapidly changing technological landscape, LunarTech partners with industry leaders to bring to you most cutting edge and innovative solutions.

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Unit 1

Flight and Vehicle Dynamics

Unit 2

Flight Control

Unit 3

Sensing and State Estimation

Unit 4

Navigation Without GNSS

Unit 5

Autonomy and Mission Planning

Unit 6

Operations, Regulation and Safety

Revolution inspiring a new
generation of global AI leaders

Build vehicles that fly without a pilot.
Take them from flight dynamics to navigation without satellites.

Real stories from teams who
transformed with LunarTech.