Autonomy Beyond Connection
Autonomy that understands missions and acts independently.
We develop autonomy for unmanned systems. Whether a drone or a ground robot, you define the objective and boundaries. Nouma understands the situation and decides what to do next.
Mission Intelligence
Define the objective. Nouma executes the mission.
Nouma plans the next steps, responds to changes, and delivers the results relevant to the mission.
- Set the objective and boundaries
- Operators describe the objective, area, priorities, and boundaries in natural language. Nouma translates the mission into executable steps.
- Assess the situation
- Nouma combines camera and sensor data and identifies what is relevant or critical to the mission.
- Execute the mission and deliver results
- Nouma documents conditions and deviations, follows up on changes, or creates a concise situational picture.
Applications
Nouma inspects assets, monitors sites, and investigates critical situations.
Asset inspection
Nouma regularly performs visual inspections of assets, infrastructure, and hard-to-reach areas, documenting their condition and detected deviations.
Adaptive monitoring
Nouma monitors defined areas and detects relevant changes. When it identifies an anomaly, Nouma adapts its approach and autonomously decides what measures to take next, for example examining a change from additional viewpoints.
Reconnaissance in critical situations
Nouma assesses critical situations, autonomously decides on the next reconnaissance steps, and provides a concise situational picture to inform further decisions.
Mission understood. Destination found autonomously.
- Semantic Last-Mile DeliveryFinding a destination from a description
- Fully completed
- Person search
- Person found
Without GPS Without human control
In “Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0,” Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) challenged European teams with delivery and search-and-rescue missions that their drones had to complete at the finale in Erding without GPS or human control.
We finished among the top four teams and were the only team to fully solve the Semantic Last-Mile Delivery task. Our drone inferred the target location from a natural-language description and visible features, found it autonomously, and flew to it.
The same system also found the person in the search mission. Only the natural-language instruction changed.
Technology
Autonomy that can run entirely onboard.
Nouma combines perception, spatial context, and the mission. Mission decisions and image processing can run entirely onboard, without continuous connectivity or cloud access.
One stack for air and ground
The same core technology supports aerial and ground platforms. We adapt interfaces and validation to each platform.
Test rare situations under controlled conditions
We test rare and difficult situations under repeatable conditions in simulation and validate perception, planning, and execution on real platforms.
What we offer
Autonomy for your platform. Or as a complete system.
Extend existing platforms
Our autonomy can be incorporated into suitable drones and ground robots. Depending on the platform, we add the required computing hardware and sensors and validate the system for its intended use.
A complete system
We provide a system equipped with our autonomy and tailored to your task. The platform, sensors, and computing hardware are chosen to meet your operational requirements.
Our own autonomy technology is at the core of every configuration.
Team
We have built complex robotic systems from scratch.
From AI and perception through planning and embedded systems to real hardware. This experience gives us the understanding required to develop autonomy for different aerial and ground platforms.
- Christopher MayCEO
- Leon SeidelCTO
- Andreas GründerCOO
- Dr.-Ing. Sebastian ReitelshöferCSO
Origins and programmes
A spin-off from the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Funded by SPRIND through “Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0”. Part of the ZOLLHOF Incubation Program.