Kepler Nav Technology - Kalam Micro-PNT Silicon, Relativistic XNAV Engine & IP

The 4 patentable IP pillars of Kepler Nav

Rethinking autonomous navigation from first principles.

Transforming navigation from single-signal hardware fallacies into a unified Information-First Navigation (IFN) architecture.

Dynamic Observability Slicing
Pillar 01 // Algorithmic IP // Patent Family 11,000 Hz Lie matrix rank

Dynamic Observability Slicing

Real-time 1,000 Hz Lie derivative rank tracker continuously evaluating the 6x6 observability matrix. Injects Virtual Geometric Manifold Constraints when signals drop out, preventing filter divergence.

Observability rank6/6 Full manifold
Kalam Acceleration Engine
Pillar 02 // Silicon Netlist IP // Patent Family 250x speedup (< 1.5W)

Kalam Acceleration Engine

Proprietary FPGA matrix acceleration netlist performing parallel sparse Cholesky elimination in hardware. Accelerates Factor Graph Optimization by 50x while slashing power from 50W to < 1.5W.

Observability rank6/6 Full manifold
Relativistic XNAV Pulsar Timing Engine
Pillar 03 // Signal Processing IP // Patent Family 3Cosmic atomic timing

Relativistic XNAV Pulsar Timing Engine

Processes millisecond pulsar X-ray photon time-of-arrival (TOA) and relativistic phase shifts φ̈_k(t). Delivers natural cosmic atomic clock timing for deep space navigation without ground station assistance.

Observability rank6/6 Full manifold
Autonomous Cross-Domain Self-Calibration
Pillar 04 // System Architecture IP // Patent Family 4Zero factory recalibration

Autonomous Cross-Domain Self-Calibration

Online manifold auto-calibration engine continuously estimating IMU thermal bias, optical lens expansion, and sensor misalignment matrices in orbit using natural celestial and RF observables.

Observability rank6/6 Full manifold
Hardware architecture // Kalam-Zero 1U

Kalam-Zero 1U payload schematic.

Kalam Silicon Electrical Board Hardware
1U CubeSat Flight Pod

Space-grade Verilog netlist executing on AMD Zynq MPSoC

Integrated sa.45s Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC), ADIS16497 tactical IMU, and dual AD9361 SDR radio receivers in a 1U CubeSat footprint.

Power Envelope< 1.42 W
Form Factor1U CubeSat Standard
Update Frequency100 Hz Realtime
// Kalam-Zero PCB PinoutActive
FPGA Core:XCZU3EG-1SFVA625I
Atomic Clock:SA.45s CSAC (10ns)
Tactical IMU:ADIS16497-3 (0.8°/hr)
Interactive simulator // HWIL flight deck

Real-time orbital trajectory telemetry.

HWIL Flight Simulator v2.4
LEO Altitude
412.8 km
Orbital Velocity
7.68 km/s
Doppler Residual
42.18 kHz
Lie Matrix Rank
6/6 Full
Doppler Phase Curvature Waveform φ̈(t)100 Hz Realtime
Engineering culture & philosophy

Built on uncompromising engineering rigor.

01. Mathematical determinism

Guaranteed global state convergence on SE(3) Lie Group manifold without heuristic black-box models.

02. Absolute zero single-points

No reliance on single external satellite signals, ground telemetry, or central authority control.

03. Hardware co-design efficiency

Custom silicon netlists designed hand-in-hand with algorithmic solvers to achieve 50x efficiency under 1.5W.

04. Electronic warfare defense

Continuous Doppler phase-curvature verification making signal jamming and spoofing mathematically impossible.

05. First-principles verification

Every line of code and silicon logic gate verified through formal mathematical observability proofs.

06. Aerospace quality minimalism

Stripping away bloated software abstraction layers to achieve sub-12ms real-time latency.

Enterprise & research inquiries

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Partner with our engineering team to integrate the UNIF-PNT navigation engine or deploy Kalam-Zero payloads for satellite and defense platforms.

Direct research email: sanjay@keplernav.com
Location: Kepler Nav Research Labs