Safety & Redundancy Architecture
Layered protection for Aurora agricultural robots, laser treatment systems, drones, powered tools and autonomous fleets—from home gardens to industrial agriculture.
Independent authority
Task AI may recognize plants, weeds, insects, people, animals and terrain, but it does not own final safety authority. Independent controls retain the ability to inhibit treatment energy, motion, cutting, manipulation or flight.
Phase 4 scope
REV4 turns the Phase 3 safety interface into a dedicated public-safe architecture covering directed energy, people and animals, perception assurance, functional safety, power-loss behavior, machinery hazards, drone operations, cybersecurity, human factors, fleet coordination, and verification.
Safety architecture pages
Laser & Directed-Energy Safety
Layered controls for optical treatment systems, including independent inhibit authority, bounded operating zones, fault response and maintenance controls.
HAPHuman, Animal & Protected-Species Safety
Redundant detection, exclusion zones and conservative no-action behavior around people, pets, wildlife, livestock and protected species.
PAIPerception Assurance & Safe Classification
Confidence-aware classification, sensor agreement and unknown-target handling for AI-guided agricultural machines.
FSAFunctional Safety & Independent Authority
Independent safety supervision for treatment energy, autonomous motion, cutting tools, manipulators and aerial systems.
PSSPower Integrity, Reserve & Safe-State Control
Safe behavior through brownout, battery depletion, power conversion faults, charging faults and emergency shutdown.
MMSMobility, Tool & Machinery Safety
Safe autonomous motion, implements, cutters, trimmers, manipulators, seeders and harvesting mechanisms.
DASDrone & Aerial-System Safety
Safety architecture for agricultural scouting, canopy access, aerial manipulation and coordinated drone-ground missions.
CYBCybersecurity & Control Resilience
Protect safety authority, remote operation, updates, fleet coordination and agricultural data from unauthorized control or corrupted state.
HFEHuman Factors, Supervision & Service Safety
Operator controls, alerts, permissions, maintenance workflows and residential safeguards designed for understandable and predictable behavior.
FSCFleet Safety & Coordinated Inhibit
Machine-to-machine awareness, shared exclusion zones and fleet-level coordination without surrendering local safety authority.
VVTSafety Verification, Validation & Fault Injection
Evidence that safety functions work under normal, degraded and faulted conditions before deployment.
Protection increases with consequence
| Scale | Typical environment | Safety emphasis |
|---|---|---|
| AG-1 / AG-2 | Personal & home garden | Child/pet protection, low-speed behavior, supervision, bounded treatment zones |
| AG-3 / AG-4 | Residential / commercial grounds | Public-space awareness, tool safety, geofencing, service isolation, fleet separation |
| AG-5 / AG-6 | Specialty agriculture / farms | Terrain, livestock/workers, higher-energy tools, independent safety authority, remote supervision |
| AG-7 / AG-8 | Industrial / regional fleets | Fleet coordination, local override, resilient communications, formal verification and configuration control |