L0
Manned
Baseline vehicle. Kit installed, no driving automation.
Operator in vehicle
Vehicle autonomy
Autonomy in defined increments, each independently useful and independently priced
Capability levels
From manned to conditional autonomy
L1
Teleoperated
Remote driving over encrypted link. Continuous human control of steering, throttle, brake.
Operator in the loop
L2
Assisted
Path keeping, obstacle warning, speed governing, return-to-safe on link loss.
Operator in the loop
L3
Supervised
Waypoint navigation, follow-me, convoy keeping, obstacle avoidance within a defined operating domain.
Operator on the loop
L4
Conditional
Mission execution within a defined operational design domain. Degraded-GNSS navigation. Human on call.
Operator on call
Full unsupervised autonomy is outside our current scope. We will not represent a capability we cannot document a safety case for.
Autopilot platform architecture
A layered stack with an independent safety monitor and a human supervision path.
Sensing
Lidar, radar, EO/IR, inertial, wheel odometry, GNSS where available.
Perception
Obstacle detection, terrain classification, traversability assessment.
Localization
GNSS-degraded and denied positioning. Visual and inertial dead-reckoning.
World model
Fused local map, tracked objects, confidence and staleness scoring.
Planning
Route, path, and behaviour planning within the operational design domain.
Control
Actuation to steering, throttle, braking, and transmission via the platform bus.
Safety monitor
Independent of the planning stack. Enforces geofence, speed, and standoff limits, and commands safe-stop on fault, link loss, or domain exit.
Operator supervision
Single console across ground and air assets. Take-over at any level, full telemetry logging, and replayable mission record for after-action review.
Every level of automation retains a human take-over path and a logged, replayable record.
How an autonomy program runs
Five phases. Fixed-price. Each gated on acceptance of the last.
0
Scoping study
Concept of operations, Interface Control Document, power and thermal budget, sensor architecture, safety framework, firm price for the next phase.
6–8 weeks
1
Demonstrator
Integrated mission kit on a donor platform. Teleoperated or optionally-manned. Field demonstration to end users.
90 days
2
Supervised autonomy
Waypoint, follow-me, convoy, obstacle avoidance. Operator on the loop. Degraded-GNSS navigation.
12–18 months
3
Production engineering
Line integration, qualification, configuration control at rate, technician training and certification.
9–12 months
4
Conditional autonomy
Operational design domain expansion, safety case, verification, fielding support.
Scoped after Phase 2
Development is customer-funded and milestone-billed. A113 retains its background and developed intellectual property and licenses it by field of use.
Next step
Start with a scoping study
Six to eight weeks, fixed price. You receive the concept of operations, the Interface Control Document, the electrical and thermal budget against your actual platform, a safety framework, and a firm price for the build.
If the study does not earn the next phase, you have learned that for the cost of a study.
Request a scoping study