Autonomy
Enabling the human-centred autonomy revolution.
We work with clients to bring novel technologies that expand human capabilities, empower human efficiency and enhance human safety. As we stand on the threshold of the next generation of robotics and artificial intelligence, we will work with you to embrace and develop technologies that will help you leapfrog your competition.
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Your partner for automation, augmentation and autonomy
You might be battling a shortage of skilled labour, trying to drive modularisation, lower CAPEX or have an urgent need to remove humans from hazardous environments whilst remaining competitive. We are here to help you embrace automation, augmentation and autonomous technologies enabled by the latest artificial intelligence and sensing.
When you choose TTP as a partner in your human-centred autonomous journey, you gain access to a team of multidisciplinary experts with expertise in developing autonomous solutions in markets ranging from aviation and, mobility to broader industrial technology. This helps us cross-pollinate ideas from other markets and deliver a product that leverages the right design to be commercially successful in your market.
We use our autonomy toolkit to accelerate the development of your solution:
- Deep knowledge of sensors spanning electrochemical, optical, spectroscopic, piezoelectric, electromagnetic to the latest quantum technology
- Extensive experience of deploying cyber-physical intelligence safely and reliably without sacrificing size, weight, power and cost
- Safe AI tools such as digital twins, model-based development, formal methods and effective development guard rails
We will help you achieve your vision for human-led autonomy and make it a commercial success.
Partnering with TTP has been pivotal in Augmented developing smart safety glasses that redefine how frontline workers across multiple sectors globally carry out their jobs. The ability of ‘edge connected workers’ to access real-time data and receive AI assistance while maintaining safety standards will be transformative. While the product solutions are still in final development, we are highly confident that the innovation we are achieving with TTP will provide unparalleled value to industries that are dependent on operational efficiency and worker safety.
Gregg Eichhorn
CEO, Augmented Limited
Working with TTP was a pleasure and a very good fit for Philips Respironics. They were able to provide us with novel sensing technology that created a significant cost improvement over existing options. While we traditionally did not develop new sensors like this, TTP was able to lead us through the process very effectively and within budget.”
Peter Bliss
Principal Engineer at Philips Respironics
Deploying intelligence and autonomy in constrained edge platforms
What do the automation of a drilling operation in a dangerous underground mine and smart safety glasses for the factory floor have in common? They both require cracking the challenge of developing cyber-physical intelligence that can perceive, think, and act safely and reliably without compromising on size, weight, power and cost. We understand the complexities of bringing autonomy to the edge and can help you bridge the gap when off-the-shelf solutions don’t quite fit the bill.
Perhaps you are seeking to extract more information than current systems allow. Customised sensor fusion for perception married to closed-loop feedback from your actuators might provide the richness of information you require. Alternatively, you might be finding that whilst off-the-shelf solutions meet performance, you are having to making compromises. We have decades of experience building products and systems that have disrupted the market by bringing a step change in size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) without sacrificing performance.
You might be spearheading autonomy in a new application and proving the system is safe may be critical. We can help you provide the explainability you need to your regulator or your customer with our safe-AI tool kit of digital twins, model-based development, formal methods and effective development guard rails.
Whatever your industrial autonomy challenge, partnering with us will provide access to our cross-disciplinary expertise, accelerating your route to market by avoiding costly errors and leveraging modern AI to your benefit.
Learn more about autonomy in constrained edge systems.
Novel approaches to sensing for a step change in granularity and scalability.
When our clients’ face unforeseen market pressures, there is demand on technology to deliver previously unattainable results. Consider the demands that the energy transition is placing on two different industries—mining and gas distribution networks. The mining industry needs to find ways to serve the unprecedented demand for critical minerals when we have exhausted most surface resources. Gas distribution majors need to manage leaks more effectively whilst handling increasingly complex networks and new sources of energy. We can help develop and deploy custom sensors that help unearth novel sources of data – from a camera that can see magnetic fields to map ore to a sensor that detects the composition of gas leaks to better manage your distribution network.
Modifying existing hardware in-house can be challenging, limiting your capacity to adapt to new problems discovered during testing or to expand into new markets. Imagine if the only thing standing between you and a successful business case is the response time of your camera shutter or the power dissipation of your radar. The ability to adjust fundamental aspects of your products or customize off-the-shelf solutions can be transformative. Custom hardware is our specialty, allowing you to focus on what you do best.
Balancing the value and challenges of digital twins for your application
A digital twin can be a great asset to de-risk development, design and operation. The benefits are very clear for large infrastructure projects, however smaller-scale operations can benefit too – such as optimising small network assets or evaluating product concepts against expected operating environments.
You might be wondering if digital twins can be beneficial to you or perhaps you have shied away from them due to the investment needed in building one. We have discovered that AI is significantly lowering the costs of the development of digital twins, so you can achieve a rapid return on investment.
However, the development of a good digital twin is not just an AI problem – and this is where TTP can bring a step change in performance, whatever your technology or product. Our expertise spans AI, complex product development, and fundamental multi- physics – which enables us to use AI to our advantage instead of falling into the traps of building a superficial unusable twin. We are able to assess your challenge to balance the data burden needed for the digital twins, make the right split between edge & cloud and incorporate a physics-based understanding of the operating environment.
Learn more about harnessing AI foundation models to maximise the potential of digital twins.
How we can help
Sensor technology design and development
We specialise in designing custom sensors that require a comprehensive understanding of the physical properties you will measure, while selecting materials and methods to ensure performance, durability, and accuracy. Integrating sensors demands balancing connectivity, protocols, power management, and efficiency, often requiring extensive prototyping and testing to achieve optimal performance.
Constructing cyber-physical systems
We understand what you really need to see and what you can ignore to design a perception system that is custom tuned to your application. Our deep understanding of sensor fusion techniques allows us to build systems for you with greater robustness and an understanding of the environment far richer than a single sensor. We close the loop with feedback from your actuators to get the most out of this understanding, moving with precision and efficiency.
Leverage AI safely and reliably
Foundation models have astonishing capacity in extracting information from data but have equally weighty computational requirements. We help you balance and answer complex techno-economic questions as communications, compute, and models are evolving at an astonishing pace.
When we hand over functionality to an autonomous system, we leverage our safe AI tool kit to help “prove” the safety to a satisfactory level.
Develop human centric autonomy
Solutions for automation and augmentation need to complement and be usable by humans in the loop. The technology needs to be intuitive, simple to use, and easy to integrate into industrial work flows to be widely adopted. We prioritise human factors engineering in our system design. We have applied this on a range of technologies from wearables for factory worker augmentation to solutions that enable one human to control and monitor many robots.
Take ideas from opportunity discovery to manufacture
We work with clients to develop solutions from ideation right through to transfer to manufacture. We take ideas from conceptual diagrams to iterative prototyping and down selection, rigorous testing, preparing for certification transfer to manufacture, and support for trials as need be. Our unique facilities allow for rapid prototyping of novel materials and processes as well as supporting low volume manufacture of technologies we’ve developed. We work in partnership with you as an extension of your engineering team.
Sensor technology design and development
We specialise in designing custom sensors that require a comprehensive understanding of the physical properties you will measure, while selecting materials and methods to ensure performance, durability, and accuracy. Integrating sensors demands balancing connectivity, protocols, power management, and efficiency, often requiring extensive prototyping and testing to achieve optimal performance.
Constructing cyber-physical systems
We understand what you really need to see and what you can ignore to design a perception system that is custom tuned to your application. Our deep understanding of sensor fusion techniques allows us to build systems for you with greater robustness and an understanding of the environment far richer than a single sensor. We close the loop with feedback from your actuators to get the most out of this understanding, moving with precision and efficiency.
Leverage AI safely and reliably
Foundation models have astonishing capacity in extracting information from data but have equally weighty computational requirements. We help you balance and answer complex techno-economic questions as communications, compute, and models are evolving at an astonishing pace.
When we hand over functionality to an autonomous system, we leverage our safe AI tool kit to help “prove” the safety to a satisfactory level.
Develop human centric autonomy
Solutions for automation and augmentation need to complement and be usable by humans in the loop. The technology needs to be intuitive, simple to use, and easy to integrate into industrial work flows to be widely adopted. We prioritise human factors engineering in our system design. We have applied this on a range of technologies from wearables for factory worker augmentation to solutions that enable one human to control and monitor many robots.
Take ideas from opportunity discovery to manufacture
We work with clients to develop solutions from ideation right through to transfer to manufacture. We take ideas from conceptual diagrams to iterative prototyping and down selection, rigorous testing, preparing for certification transfer to manufacture, and support for trials as need be. Our unique facilities allow for rapid prototyping of novel materials and processes as well as supporting low volume manufacture of technologies we’ve developed. We work in partnership with you as an extension of your engineering team.
Our approach and capabilities
We deliver across the entire life of a project, from opportunity discovery to production engineering. Discover how our interdisciplinary teams of experts collaborate to tackle the toughest product development challenges.
Our campus and facilities
Our award-winning campus has been designed with a clear vision. To create a space which can support our people and our clients as we develop and deliver the very best technology solutions.
Software capability at TTP
Engaged in all stages of software and product development, our software capability at TTP covers the full spectrum—from in-depth analysis and system architecture to prototype design, implementation, and test development.
Manufacturing capability at TTP
Working seamlessly with our development teams, we take clients' products through prototype builds, clinical trials, pilot manufacture and more. Using TTP Manufacturing reduces uncertainty, risk and time to market for our clients.
Meet some of the team
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