GhostPilot: Build a GPS-Denied Drone Navigation Stack with Visual SLAM + Agentic AI
GhostPilot is an open-source drone navigation system designed to operate without GPS by using Visual-Inertial SLAM and agentic AI for mission understanding. It enables autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments such as indoors, urban canyons, and forests using edge hardware like Jetson Orin and Raspberry Pi 5. The system integrates with ROS2 Nav2 for path planning and supports natural language mission commands through an LLM-based mission parser.
- ▪GhostPilot uses Visual-Inertial SLAM (VINS-Mono) to enable drone navigation in environments where GPS is unavailable or unreliable.
- ▪The system includes an LLM-based mission parser that converts natural language commands into executable navigation goals.
- ▪It is built on a modular three-layer architecture consisting of an agentic mission planner, SLAM processing, and the ROS2 Nav2 navigation stack.
- ▪GhostPilot is designed to run on affordable edge hardware, offering a low-cost alternative to expensive military-grade GPS-denied navigation systems.
- ▪The project is open-source, well-documented, and includes simulation tools, tests, and a headless demo for development and validation.
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