Who We Are

Engineers first.
Always.

A DPIIT-registered defence technology company building autonomous UAV platforms in Ghaziabad, UP. Flight-validated across Ladakh high-altitude, coastal humidity, and agricultural flatland.

DPIIT StartupGhaziabad · UP0 Chinese Components
Credentials

Documentation buyers
can verify.

Registration, supply-chain posture, and platform readiness — each line verifiable against official records on request.

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EntityVortex Autonomous Systems Pvt. Ltd.
RegistrationDPIIT Recognised Startup
Founded2026 · Ghaziabad, UP
Platform TRLTRL 6 · all six platforms
Supply chain0 Chinese-origin components
iDEXOpen Challenge applicant · 2026
GeMRegistered vendor
NPNTDigital Sky compliant
Team

Six disciplines.
One integrated team.

A compact founding team that covers every layer of the stack in-house — from airframe mechanical through embedded avionics through edge inference to cloud fleet control.

01
Aeronautical Engineering

Airframe · CF structures · motor-arm geometry

02
Embedded & Avionics

ArduPilot · PX4 · Cube Orange Plus integration

03
AI / ML · Edge Inference

YOLOv8 · ByteTrack · Jetson deployment

04
Systems & Firmware

VortexDelta custom stack · MAVLink routing

05
Cloud GCS Platform

FastAPI · real-time telemetry · NPNT compliant

06
Field Operations

High-altitude · desert · tropical validation

Path to here

Competition team
to company.

ISRO IROC-U to NIDAR to a registered defence startup — one year, six platforms, zero shortcuts.

  1. IROC-U 2025
    Team formed · ISRO challenge accepted

    Core team assembles at AKGEC Ghaziabad for ISRO's IROC-U 2025 competition. First autonomous drone system designed and developed from scratch — GPS-denied flight in indoor environments using optical flow and onboard compute. No off-the-shelf frames, no shortcuts.

  2. SIH 2025
    Smart India Hackathon · Atlas born

    VAS-01 Atlas heavy-lift hexacopter conceived and built for Smart India Hackathon 2025. First T700 CF airframe, fold-arm stowage, and 25 kg+ payload architecture. Atlas goes from idea to flying prototype on a hackathon timeline.

  3. NIDAR 2025
    Platform family expands · Atlas Ag, Sentinel, Ranger

    NIDAR 2025 drives rapid platform development. Atlas Ag precision agriculture variant, VAS-04 Sentinel military ISR, and VAS-03 Ranger enterprise mapping all developed and flown. Core flight stack, SIYI MK15, and Cube Orange Plus integration validated across all three.

  4. Late 2025
    Circuit of local competitions · Stack hardened

    Multiple regional competitions across North India. Each event stress-tests a different subsystem — GPS-denied nav, payload release, autonomous waypoint missions. Failures debugged in the field, not the lab. The platform stack earns its TRL 6 rating the hard way.

  5. IROC-U 2026
    Full cycle complete · Startup incorporated

    Return to IROC-U closes the loop — one full year from student competition team to registered drone startup. Vortex Autonomous Systems Pvt. Ltd. incorporated. DPIIT startup recognition. Six platforms at TRL 6. iDEX Open Challenge application filed.

  6. 2026 →
    Autonomous systems company · Product and service launch

    Competition team becomes product company. Atlas Ag Type Certification at NTH Ghaziabad. Sentinel and Hornet defence trials. Vortex Cloud GCS SaaS launch. Drone-as-a-Service rollout for agriculture and enterprise. Seed funding round target. 50-unit production capacity.

How we work

Six principles.
Non-negotiable.

Operational commitments we can show you in code, BOMs, and flight logs — not slide decks.

01
Zero-compromise supply chain

Every BOM line item is verified against our Chinese-component exclusion policy before procurement approval. No exceptions. No legacy exemptions.

02
TRL honesty

We do not ship platforms rated beyond their demonstrated capability. TRL 6 means TRL 6 — prototype demonstrated in relevant environment. Not a slide. Not a simulation.

03
Indian data sovereignty

Our GCS infrastructure, telemetry logging, and AI inference run on Indian servers or on-vehicle. No operational data leaves Indian jurisdiction.

04
Dual-use by design

Every civil platform is engineered with defence-grade component tolerance. The delta between civil and military configuration is firmware and payload — not a different drone.

05
Open to scrutiny

MoD due diligence, export control review, supply chain audit — we welcome it. Our documentation is maintained to the standard of entities that expect to be checked.

06
Operators before investors

We build for the person running the mission, not the person reading the quarterly report. Performance in the field is the only metric that earns the next contract.

Work with us

Defence · Government · Enterprise.

One briefing covers procurement path, platform fit, and timelines.