Teledyne FLIR OEM, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has launched Prism™ Supervisor, the newest addition to its Prism embedded software ecosystem. This software integrates drone autopilot flight control with real-time, AI-powered edge computing to enhance mission safety, efficiency, and performance, advancing the capabilities of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Prism Supervisor software provides mission planners with a flexible programming framework and software development kit (SDK) for creating custom, complex mission scenarios. During flight, it dynamically adjusts autopilot functions in real time, generating mission segments and flight plans on the fly to reduce operator workload and enhance mission success. For instance, a UAV equipped with Prism Supervisor can autonomously detect a human or threat during a search mission, circle the target, and alert the operator.

"From behaviour and mission planning to dynamically adjusting in-flight operations, Prism Supervisor represents a significant advancement for drone autonomy through AI," said Dan Walker, Vice President of Product Management, Teledyne FLIR. "It improves operational performance via single-click missions, opening up new possibilities for UAS operation from commercial to military use cases." 

Prism Supervisor enhances operator experience with an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for mission planning, real-time visualization, and execution. Available on desktop and mobile platforms—including Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android—the software streams and records high-frame-rate video, path visualization, and metadata. It also enables collaborative behaviours and synchronized operations among multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Expanding Teledyne FLIR’s Prism digital ecosystem, Prism Supervisor leverages advanced AI and image processing to support object detection, tracking, and computational imaging on low-power processors. This improves UAS mission performance while reducing development costs.