Flight Controllers
SaamPix 1.0 — a high-performance, open-source autopilot for multirotors, fixed-wings, VTOLs and hybrid UAVs. Rich I/O, triple-redundant sensing, ArduPilot & PX4 ready.
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Made in India · Inhouse Research
SAAM Drones designs and manufactures indigenous flight controllers, ground control software and UAV platforms — from bare PCB to first flight.
What we build
SaamPix 1.0 — a high-performance, open-source autopilot for multirotors, fixed-wings, VTOLs and hybrid UAVs. Rich I/O, triple-redundant sensing, ArduPilot & PX4 ready.
See the hardware →SAAM GCS — our in-house ground control station for mission planning, live telemetry, video and multi-vehicle operations, built for demanding field work.
See the software →Airframe integration, sensor fusion, companion computers and bespoke UAV solutions for research, industrial and defence programmes.
Talk to us →Flagship hardware
A high-performance open-source flight controller for UAV systems ranging from multirotors and fixed-wings to VTOL and hybrid aircraft. Advanced hardware, rich I/O, and full ArduPilot compatibility make it ideal for research, defence, industrial and high-end DIY drone projects.
Flagship software
Our in-house ground control station pairs natively with SaamPix and any MAVLink autopilot over serial, TCP or UDP. Plan missions, monitor live telemetry, replay flight logs and rehearse in simulation — all from one screen, with multi-user roles and fleet support built in.
Live HUD with attitude, airspeed and EKF health, full flight-data panel, and one-click mode, guided-to-point and Arm+Takeoff controls beside the map.
Real-time HUD, vibration monitor and flight data with speech alerts. Guided fly-to by lat/lon or a pasted Google Maps link, with tracking tags and auto-pan.
Waypoint planning with save/load, mission upload/download, and Mission Planner-style fences — circle or polygon, altitude and radius limits, RTL actions.
Load DataFlash logs with hundreds of series, plot any channel, export CSV, and replay the flight over a live 3D terrain view.
Integrated ArduPilot SITL runs real firmware on your PC — every GCS tab works exactly as with a real drone, over live 3D world terrain.
Multiple drones on one screen with an active-drone selector, plus admin-managed user accounts and roles.
Native Indian Grid impact-coordinate readout alongside GEO — built for Indian survey and range work.
Prefetch map tiles for offline field use, with selectable providers and terrain elevation overlay.
Live video tab, serial debug console and in-app firmware flashing round out the field toolkit.
From box to first flight
Who we are
SAAM Drones is an Indian UAV technology company doing everything in-house — schematic capture, PCB layout, firmware, ground software and flight testing. Our concept is simple: build a flight controller that supports multiple complex VTOL configurations, on a two-layer technology that is simple, affordable and reliable.
From the first SAAM FC 1.0 prototype to the SaamPix 1.0 production board, every design has been flown on our own airframes before it reaches a customer. That loop — design, build, fly, refine — is what we mean by inhouse research.
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