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ASH P1 · Mobility
The first vehicle in the ASH architecture, designed for autonomous heavy movement across quays, yards and loading zones.
- Layer
- Mobility
- Stage
- In development
- Target
- 20 km/h max
Infrastructure for autonomous heavy logistics, starting with ports.
ASH combines autonomous heavy vehicles, battery swapping, fleet intelligence and upgradeable electronics into one infrastructure layer. ASH P1 is the first vehicle being developed on this architecture.
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ASH P1 · Concept preview · Simulation
Interactive design concept. Geometry, motion and timing illustrate the architecture; performance and safety remain to be validated.
ASH P1Design targets · unvalidated
Up to 50 tPayload
20 km/h maxSpeed
6 × 77 kWhPacks · nominal
< 3 minSwap · unmeasured
Our mission
Ports are electrifying, but heavy fleets can't keep up. ASH treats vehicles, energy and intelligence as one infrastructure problem, and builds hardware that is serviced and upgraded rather than replaced.
How the architecture fits togetherCapabilities
One architecture, connected capabilities.
P1 is the first vehicle, not the entire system.
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Heavy cargo movement
A heavy-duty platform concept for container and industrial cargo. Load restraint, axle loads and braking need physical validation before any rated capacity.
- Layer
- Mobility
- Stage
- Design targets
- Target
- Up to 50 t payload
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ASH Dock · Energy
Robotic swapping of six independent packs, three per side, with battery screening, charging, storage and healthy-pack allocation.
- Layer
- Energy
- Stage
- Concept
- Target
- < 3 min swap
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Fleet intelligence
Fleet orchestration connects missions, vehicle state, battery availability and Dock scheduling. Every move a vehicle’s planner proposes runs the NEXUS decision chain before the safety core decides.
- Layer
- Intelligence
- Stage
- Simulation
- Authority
- Advisory only
Architecture
Built to be upgraded, not replaced.
Chassis, electronics and batteries have different service lives. ASH separates them behind defined interfaces.
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Intelligence
Perception and planning, the NEXUS decision chain, fleet orchestration and an independent deterministic safety authority.
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Expansion
Horizon and mission modules. Future concepts that follow physical validation.
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Energy
ASH Dock and a battery-service network that charges stored packs while vehicles work.
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Mobility
ASH P1, a modular heavy electric platform with side-access service drawers.
NEXUS · Decision layer
NEXUS proposes. Safety authorizes.
NEXUS is ASH’s decision layer. It is not another driving model: it is designed as a chain of checks that every move must pass before it is proposed, with a sealed record of why.
The vehicle’s planner suggests what it could do. NEXUS works out what it should propose. The independent safety core decides what actually moves. NEXUS never drives the vehicle.
01 · Planner
Proposes moves
The vehicle’s planner offers several candidate moves. Whenever the safety core confirms one is feasible, a hold or a controlled stop is among them.
02 · NEXUS
Certifies, replaces or abstains
Each move must pass four mandatory checks: collision, dynamics, uncertainty and rules. Collision is checked against a range of possible futures for the traffic around it, not just the likeliest one. Missing or expired evidence counts as unknown, never as safe. Only moves that pass every check are ranked, so productivity can never buy back a failed check. The result is accepted, replaced with a certified alternative, or refused.
03 · Safety core
Authorizes motion
A separate, deterministic safety core approves, limits or rejects the motion. NEXUS holds no motion authority.
Why it will be crucial
Autonomy that can explain itself.
Heavy vehicles in a working terminal cannot rely on a model that is usually right. NEXUS is how ASH intends to earn trust, one decision at a time.
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Built for vehicles terminals already have
Many terminals already run electric vehicles. The plan is to retrofit vehicles like these, with NEXUS as their decision layer, and bring them back into their operation windows. The first step is ATD-01, a retired industrial vehicle for controlled testing, where control is validated before any autonomy.
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Mixed traffic, many futures
Ports mix straddle carriers, tractors, road trucks, trains and people. Instead of acting on the most likely future, NEXUS checks a move against several, and refuses to guess when it cannot see.
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Decisions that can be audited
Every decision is built to carry the evidence behind it and to be replayed. The aim is that “Why did the vehicle do this?” always has an answer, with a record that safety assessors and operators can check.
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Caution where it is needed
Each move is judged on its own evidence, so NEXUS is designed to keep proposing work where the picture is clear and to hold back only where it is not, rather than slowing everything down.
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Better AI, without the wheel
Learned models may propose moves and earn credit only where evidence supports them. They are meant to improve over time, without ever gaining motion authority.
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Honest about itself
NEXUS cannot declare itself better. An advantage has to be proven against baselines, and any nonzero hard safety count fails the claim.
“I do not have enough evidence to recommend continued autonomous operation.”
Status · research and simulation · zero motion authority · shadow mode first · promotion ladder: offline → simulation → shadow → advisory, each step earned by evidence
Brownfield first
Bringing existing electric AGVs back into their operation windows.
Many terminals already run electric AGVs. The plan is to retrofit these brownfield vehicles with NEXUS and an independent safety core, bring them back into their operation windows, and prove the architecture on them before a new ASH vehicle is built.
01 · Retrofit
Add the decision chain, keep the vehicle
An existing electric vehicle is fitted with NEXUS and an independent deterministic safety core. The first is ATD-01, a retired industrial vehicle being sourced as a test platform, in a permitted controlled test environment; control is validated before any autonomy.
02 · Earn the window
Every move certified or refused
Each move the vehicle’s own planner proposes runs the NEXUS chain and is sealed with its evidence. The safety core still holds motion authority.
03 · Evidence per vehicle
No borrowed results
ATD-01 keeps its own vehicle profile and validation scope. A donor result does not validate P1, and no numbers transfer between configurations.
Status · plan · donor vehicle and controlled test environment first · physical validation, conformity assessment and operator approval ahead
Safety & validation
Proposals are earned. Motion is authorized.
PlannerproposesNEXUScertifies or abstains
Deterministic safety coreapproves · limits · rejects
Motion
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Independent authority
Brake, steering, stop and health monitoring get defined failure behavior, separate from NEXUS, the planner and the wireless mission layer.
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Evidence before claims
Hardware integration, fault testing and controlled operation come before any rated capacity or safety claim.
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Brownfield fit
Turning envelopes, stopping distances and clearances are validated against the real site, its people and its mixed equipment.
ASH Dock
Swap. Check. Charge. Reuse.
Dock treats batteries as serviceable fleet assets. Charging and deeper testing move off the vehicle's critical path.
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Arrive
P1 docks between dual-side extraction positions.
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Extract
Robotic removal of individual packs, three per side.
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Screen
SOC, estimated SOH, temperature, cycles and BMS faults.
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Charge
Healthy packs go to charging and storage. Exceptions go to diagnostics.
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Allocate
Charged, healthy packs are assigned to the next vehicle.
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Depart
The vehicle returns to work while packs recover.
6Independent packs
<3 minSwap target · unmeasured
77 kWhNominal reference per pack
24/7Duty-cycle intent
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