Abto Software

Abto Software is a Lviv-based software-engineering house, founded in 2007, whose defence division provides AI and computer-vision research and development for military drones. The wider firm is an outsourcing house of roughly 230 people led by founder and chief executive Oleksandr Muzychuk; the defence arm is a newer offshoot, which the company describes as around two years old and staffed by a team of about 20 military and defence engineers drawing on the firm’s longer track record in machine learning and computer vision.

Its work centres on two products. The first is an AI module for FPV drones: a small companion computer, weighing about 180 grams and built around a Jetson single-board computer, that fits drones of seven inches and up and integrates with the open-source Betaflight flight-control firmware. It combines deep-learning object tracking with optical-flow “pixel” tracking to lock onto and follow a target through the final approach — including camouflaged or low-contrast targets that lack clear outlines. Once the operator hands over to autonomous attack mode, the module flies the drone onto the target without the radio link, which the company presents as a defence against the jamming that increasingly defeats manually flown FPVs. A companion module stabilises a drone’s hover without GPS. The second product is an optical navigation system that runs alongside the standard satellite-navigation unit, fusing visual odometry with a machine-learning model that matches the camera view against preloaded topographic fragments to hold position when GNSS is jammed or spoofed.

Abto says its modules are built to NDAA, STANAG and NATO standards and have been tested and used in combat by Ukrainian pilots; most performance figures and deployment claims trace to the company itself rather than to independent reporting. It occupies the same vision-guided FPV and GPS-denied navigation niche as The Fourth Law , ZIR System and Dwarf Engineering .