Able and Colleagues8 Apr 2019 09:31
I have taken the liberty of providing a portion of a report which includes some good work -- Going Forward.
TP Group (AIM: TPG), the specialist services and engineering group, announces the award of £0.9m in development funding from the UK Ministry of Defence ("MoD") under the Defence Growth Partnership Innovation Challenge, run by the Defence and Security Accelerator ("DASA").
TP Group will act as prime contractor and project leader to develop one of the Group's Artificial Intelligence ("AI") applications. The two year project will ultimately deliver a fully operational demonstrator against the requirements of a specific future naval application. TP Group will be supported by industrial partners Thales, the University of Exeter and application partners within the MoD.
This system uses advanced algorithms developed by Polaris Consulting, the Fareham company acquired by TP Group in December 2017, to optimise autonomous routing of unmanned vessels deployed on hazardous missions. Several prototypes have already been delivered with early stage funding from DASA, including a successful sea trial in the Solent in 2017. Other systems have demonstrated machine-learning capabilities that interpret text streams, and are suitable to assist intelligence officers in threat recognition, or incident investigators on complex equipment such as jet engines.
This funding provides a catapult to future application development, not limited to maritime vehicles. Discussions are already underway relating to unmanned air systems ("UAS") and other maritime uses, not exclusively unmanned, such as optimising maintenance visits for offshore wind farms. END OF PORTION.
Not sure how algorithms are developed but it seems Polaris are the experts in our company. Working with Thales, a French company and the University of Exeter wil, I hope, create the right results expected of the Project. Any thoughts on this Topic, Please ? ----- Yours, Max.