Nanoveu (ASX:NVU) announced a landmark exclusive evaluation license agreement with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, securing the rights to four pioneering inventions designed to revolutionise autonomous drone swarm coordination.
The move aims to solve one of the industry's most persistent hurdles: high-precision navigation in GPS-denied environments such as indoors, underground, or within dense urban canyons.
The licensed intellectual property focuses on combining onboard vision with ultra-wide-band technologies.
Unlike traditional methods that rely on heavy LiDAR or vulnerable GPS signals, these inventions allow multi-drone systems to localise and maintain formation using a single-anchor UWB method and standard depth-sensing cameras.
The integration of these NTU innovations with Nanoveu’s existing EMASS ECS-DoT control engine marks a major step toward a comprehensive drone autonomy stack.
Recent Phase-2 trials of the EMASS hardware have already demonstrated remarkable efficiency gains, showing flight endurance increases of up to 60% for quadcopters and 58% for hexacopters without altering batteries or propulsion systems.
The company holds the option to convert the current agreement into an exclusive worldwide license, potentially transforming how autonomous ecosystems operate in cluttered or degraded environments.
At the time of reporting, Nanoveu's share price was $0.077.