Testing platform for autonomous systems based on Physical AI

Project number: TEM-TA238

Duration: September 2026 – August 2029
Estonian title: Füüsilisel tehisintellektil põhinevate autonoomsete süsteemide testimisplatvorm
Lead: Raivo Sell
Maturity: TRL 4 → TRL 6

TemTA builds a modular, safety-supervised platform that takes AI-based autonomy from simulation onto real machines. The target is end-to-end and hybrid control models, where there is still no standard way to pass an AI decision to a physical system and keep the behaviour observable and bounded.

The platform has three parts: a platform-independent middleware, an independent Safety Guardian that monitors decisions with its own sensors and can intervene, and a hardware interface that passes commands to the actuators. Validation follows the ISO 34502 scenario framework, from simulation through hardware-in-the-loop to a real vehicle. The work starts from TalTech iseAuto v2.0.

TemTA concept: AI control decisions reach a physical platform through middleware and a Safety Guardian

Partners include Meridein Grupp, Teede Tehnokeskus, ScaleDrive, ITS Estonia, and Tallinn Industrial Education Centre (Techno TLN). By the end of the project the platform is to be validated on at least two different kinds of machine, such as a self-driving vehicle, a drone, or a humanoid robot.