From raw sensors to a model you can act on
Every Kelora platform runs the same pipeline: fuse the sensors, understand the terrain, output a model an engineer can use.
The data pipeline
LiDAR, RTK, IMU, cameras
Time-synchronised multi-sensor alignment
3D point cloud processing, obstacle detection
Surface type, roughness, traversability scoring
Georeferenced terrain maps
Route planning, hazard assessment, digital twin output
Autonomous Navigation
GPS-denied waypoint following, obstacle avoidance, and return-to-home using fused sensor data.
Terrain Classification
Machine learning models trained on real-world surface data to classify ground conditions and predict traversability.
Digital Twin Output
Mission data is processed into georeferenced 3D models, terrain maps, and traversability overlays for offline analysis.
THISTLE
Every Kelora platform runs THISTLE: the software layer that handles mission planning, sensing, telemetry and data. It is what turns a chassis with sensors bolted to it into a survey system.
The same platform runs across every machine we build, so a capability developed for one rover is available to all of them. Terrain understanding, mission execution, fleet management and the data pipeline are one system, not four.
THISTLE is in active development alongside the hardware.
Mission planning
Routes, survey boundaries and tasking, defined before a platform leaves the van.
Sensing
Sensor drivers, time synchronisation and the fusion that turns raw streams into one view of the ground.
Telemetry
Live position, health and progress from the platform, over whatever link the site has.
Data
Capture through to georeferenced output, and the defect records that come out the far end.
Land. Sea.
Kelora is developing autonomous platforms for terrain that is difficult, dangerous, or impossible to inspect by hand. Puffin TS1 is the first. The ocean is next.
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