Skip to main content

​
Extensions catalog

These are the first-party extensions Altnautica publishes through the public ADOSExtensions repo. Each one ships as a signed .adosplug archive (Ed25519, signer altnautica-2026-A) on GitHub Releases and installs from the Mission Control Plugins tab on any drone you’ve connected. Every extension is licensed GPL-3.0-or-later; hardware reference designs ship CC0 1.0.

​
ADOS Battery Health Panel

Cell-level diagnostics, predictive time-to-min, and anomaly alerts. Contributes a Battery Health tab under the FC configuration view and a warning-severity notification channel for battery anomalies. Permissions: telemetry battery + MAVLink subscriptions, recording write, three UI slot contributions (fc.tab, notification, settings-section).

​
ADOS Thermal Camera (FLIR Lepton USB UVC)

FLIR Lepton 3.5 radiometric thermal imaging via USB UVC. Adds a live thermal video overlay on the Command view, a Thermal Camera tab under FC configuration, and a MAVLink camera component (component_id: 100) that mission planners can target. Permissions: USB UVC claim, sensor camera register, MAVLink camera component, mission read/write, video.overlay + fc.tab + notification slot contributions. Resources: 192 MB max RAM, 35% CPU. MAVLink Gimbal v2 controller with optional driver paths. Manual sliders, ROI lock-on-target, follow-me. Adds a Gimbal tab under FC configuration, a reticle overlay on the video view, and a MAVLink gimbal component (component_id: 154). Permissions: UART claim, MAVLink read/write, gimbal component, command send, gimbal telemetry subscribe, fc.tab + video.overlay + notification slot contributions. Resources: 64 MB max RAM, 15% CPU.

​
ADOS Vision Navigation

GPS-denied navigation. Optical flow (downward camera) and visual-inertial odometry (forward or downward camera) feeding the flight controller a 30 Hz position estimate over MAVLink so position-hold, loiter, and missions keep working unchanged. Six modes covering optical flow with or without a rangefinder, OpenVINS VIO, VINS-Fusion VIO, Hybrid, and Off. The agent half is a compiled Rust binary that reads frames from the agent’s shared vision bus. A 250 ms internal self-check steps down to a safer mode when features drop or drift grows and surfaces the degradation through a warning notification channel. Permissions: shared vision frame bus read, UART and I2C rangefinder access, telemetry extend, event publish and subscribe, MAVLink read and write plus the peripheral and VIO components, estimator pose inject, and process spawn for the signed vendor binaries (OpenVINS, VINS-Fusion). Vendor binaries: OpenVINS (v2.7, GPL-3.0-only) and VINS-Fusion (GPL-3.0-only). The plugin host’s subprocess sandbox accepts only the two allowlisted basenames (ados_openvins_shim, ados_vins_fusion_shim). Both binaries ship inside the signed archive under the plugin’s vendor/ directory and stay dormant unless a VIO mode is active. Resources: 512 MB max RAM, 80% CPU. See the Vision Navigation overview for the full operator guide.

​
Installing one

From Mission Control:
  1. Open a drone from the fleet, switch to the Plugins tab.
  2. Click Install plugin on this drone, then point the dialog at the extension’s .adosplug (paste the release URL or upload the downloaded file).
  3. Approve the two-stage install dialog.
From the agent CLI:
The signature is verified against /etc/ados/plugin-keys/ before the archive is unpacked.

​
Submitting an extension

Community extensions land via the hosted registry submission flow when the registry hits v1.0. Until then, first-party extensions live in the public ADOSExtensions repo and any plugin you build with the SDK installs cleanly via the local .adosplug path documented in Distribution: local install.