Big Auto One / Missions
Every mission below exists as a rehearsal: real elevation and imagery of real ground, the production vehicle software, the production safety core, the production ground software, and a network that is allowed to misbehave. We would rather learn what the terrain does to the plan before the day than during it.
Mission set
Resupply and repositioning over ground where the value of a crewed vehicle is mostly the crew inside it. Load it, authorize a route, and keep the people at the other end of a radio.
A vehicle held on useful ground, or moving slowly across it, keeping a picture the crew can work from — and cross-checking that picture against a second point of view.
Flood, fire and storm damage all produce the same problem: the map is hours out of date and the route is not knowable in advance. The vehicle decides from the contour it measures, and reports back what it found.
Built ground is the hardest case for both halves of the problem: positioning is worst exactly where the obstacles move, and the link is worst exactly where the walls are.
Rehearsal
A capability nobody has stressed is a claim. Each of the following is a standing exercise run against the production software, and each one has a defined outcome we hold ourselves to.
The vehicle drives into terrain that masks the link mid-mission, continues inside its corridor, and re-establishes contact on the far side.
A path is denied while the vehicle is under way. The session moves to what is left, the picture degrades in a defined order, and the operator is told which rung they are on.
The vehicle's only path home is through another vehicle, and that relay is then interfered with.
Positioning corrections are removed in a defile. The mission continues on onboard estimation, and pauses itself the moment the vehicle can no longer vouch for its corridor.
Position reports are falsified rather than removed. The vehicle is required to notice the disagreement instead of following it.
The active computing unit is killed mid-drive. The standby takes the vehicle without the operator losing control of it.
Sensors are destroyed in sequence en route. The vehicle degrades down the ladder, lowers its own ceiling, and still arrives.
An onboard network switch is lost with sensors on it. No single box takes the vehicle below the capability to stop itself safely.
The primary center is lost while it holds control. The backup takes the vehicle, and the vehicle is not asked to participate in the decision.
Session keys are rotated during a live mission, across multiple vehicles, without a gap in control.
Slope, side slope and a link that comes and goes with the ground, with a person on the far side who was not on any map.
The vehicle measures what it is carrying and contradicts the record. It is required to say so before it drives on it.
Your ground
We can build a rehearsal on the ground you actually care about — real elevation, real imagery, your link conditions — and show you where it goes wrong.