Our technology

We are building a constellation of stratospheric balloons carrying sophisticated instruments to acquire aerial imagery and climate data. While flying twice as high as commercial aviation, we are perfectly located to understand the local weather and what's going on the Earth in real-time.
We are building a constellation of stratospheric balloons carrying sophisticated instruments to acquire aerial imagery and climate data. While flying twice as high as commercial aviation, we are perfectly located to understand the local weather and what's going on the Earth in real-time.
Stratospheric
Autonomous

Ground and cloud

The large distance between our stratospheric platforms and ground station makes it hard to transmit data via telecommunication links. To reduce the load on our telecommunication network, we perform as much data processing as possible on our stratospheric platforms and transmit the results in a compact form. This distributed computing framework significantly shortens time-to-insight and delivers near-real-time analytics to our clients.

The challenge

01

Edge Computing

To lessen the load on our telecommunications system and reduce time-to-insight for time-critical applications such as wildfire detection, our platforms need to be capable of performing various computer vision tasks on the acquired imagery immediately after capturing them. Many factors need to be considered to achieve this, including (but not limited to) heat dissipation, memory management, throughput optimization, etc. Through our experiments in the labs, environmental chambers and in-field, we are working continuously on this challenge to improve our system.

02

Navigation

The ability to control how our platforms move in the stratosphere is crucial to the success of our missions. Our current flight navigation algorithm solves for the optimal open-loop control using Hamiltonians. While closed-loop controls are undoubtedly more robust, they involve more sophisticated methods that are difficult to implement in resource-constrained environments onboard stratospheric platforms. We are actively experimenting with state-of-the-art techniques such as deep reinforcement learning to overcome this challenge.

03

Stratospheric Operations

The environment we operate in is extremely challenging as we are under extremely cold conditions and exposed to cosmic radiation. To solve those issues, we are building gondolas in-house to protect our electronics from all threats both during the flight and when landing. Considering the incredibly chaotic nature of the atmosphere at an altitude higher than 20 km, stabilizing our hardware and ensuring it can resist the Jet stream with wind speed that can reach more than 400 km/h has proven hard but solvable by our team of engineers.

The Lux solution

Lux Aerobot’s high-altitude platform (HAP) has been designed to be plug & play while being as robust as possible. Our balloon provides lift so we can fly our solar panels and electronics in the gondola to accomplish remote sensing from the stratosphere. Our product can fly for days and station keep over any area of interest to provide live reporting on events such as wildfires.

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