MultiSet AI Drone to VPS

MultiSet AI is a San Francisco company that sells a visual positioning system (VPS).^1,2 A VPS is a map of a site against which any camera-equipped device can find its six-degree-of-freedom pose: where it is and which way it faces.^1,2 Drone to VPS builds such a map from a single drone flight carrying a 360 camera.¹ 360 video, panoramas and point clouds (sets of measured 3D points) are uploaded through a developer portal.¹ The company says stitching and scale are handled without a separate photogrammetry step (building 3D models from overlapping photos).¹

The output is a map that devices query for their position.¹ The map belongs to the site, so a phone or headset can later localise against a map a drone made.¹

Stated uses are inspection, frontline operations and navigation where GNSS (satellite positioning such as GPS) is unavailable.¹ The ArduPilot and PX4 drone autopilots can take the VPS pose as an external position estimate.¹ RTK control points tie the map to real-world coordinates.¹ MultiSet AI says its median localisation accuracy is under 5 cm.^1,2

Positions come back over a REST API with a confidence value, from a managed cloud, a private cloud or on-device.^1,2 SDKs cover Unity, Web, iOS, Android, Quest and ROS2.² There is a free tier for prototyping and usage-based pricing after that.²