Decentralized swarm coordination for GPS‑denied, RF‑contested environments. No central node. No single point of failure. No single point of detection.
Unmanned systems still depend on centralized command links, cloud compute, or a single master node. In contested theaters — active jamming, GPS denial, high packet loss — that dependency is a single point of failure and a single point of detection. Sever it, and a swarm degrades into disconnected, blind individual aircraft.
Today's counter-UAS doctrine is one interceptor against one threat. Saturation attacks are designed to win that math.
Talyra develops a decentralized, software-only coordination layer that lets a team of low-cost interceptor drones defend an area against a numerically superior attacking swarm. Every aircraft runs the same software — a shared local threat picture, market-based task allocation, and continuous re-planning under attrition. The swarm behaves as one distributed computer.
Task allocation by distributed consensus auction — grounded in the published consensus-auction research lineage. No node is special: remove any subset and the survivors re-converge on a conflict-free assignment.
The network is a spectrum, not a binary: full comms, constrained comms, receive-only, silence. Coordination quality degrades gracefully — never catastrophically — and emissions stay minimized by design.
The full coordination stack runs locally on low-power edge compute — no cloud, no base station, no external dependencies. GPS-denied and EW-contested operation is the design point, not an afterthought.
Platform-agnostic software on attritable airframes, integrating with existing OEM autonomy stacks. An asymmetric cost exchange — designed to scale from ten aircraft to hundreds.
Each interceptor fuses local sensing into a synchronized spatial picture shared peer-to-peer across the mesh — no aggregation server, no uplink required.
Interceptors bid on threat clusters in a distributed auction and converge on a conflict-free, many-on-many engagement plan — collaborative 1-vs-N, not 1-vs-1.
Losses on either side trigger automatic re-bidding. Coverage redistributes across the survivors, and the defense keeps its shape.
Talyra is developing decentralized counter-swarm autonomy in response to a U.S. Army SBIR topic on asymmetric collaborative counter-swarm defense (ARM26BX04‑NV008), following a simulation-first, Monte‑Carlo-validated methodology.
Area defense against saturation sUAS attacks for expeditionary and fixed sites — coordination that survives jamming, GPS denial, and attrition.
Protection of critical infrastructure — data centers, stadiums, utilities, airports — from uncooperative drones; multi-robot coordination middleware beyond the security domain.
Founded by engineers with distributed-systems and real-time autonomous-software backgrounds — proven ability to architect, build, and validate complex real-time systems end-to-end.