The endpoint OS.
Smart enough to find its own way home.
Titan Core OS is the runtime on every Titan machine — wheeled, aerial, legged. Connected, it takes orders from Titan Command Center. Disconnected, it runs full autonomy on-device with zero cloud dependency.
Connectivity is a luxury.
Autonomy is the baseline.
Most "autonomous" machines stop being autonomous the moment the network drops. Titan Core OS is built for the opposite assumption — full autonomy is the default, and connectivity is what gets layered on top.
Command directs. Core executes.
Titan Core OS streams telemetry to Titan Command Center, accepts mission updates, and yields to remote operators when needed. Core still owns the real-time loop — perception, control, and safety run on-device. Command sets intent; Core handles the millisecond decisions.
Comms denied. Mission continues.
Jammed, out of range, underground, or under canopy — Titan Core OS doesn't notice. The autonomy stack runs end-to-end on-device. The machine keeps perceiving, planning, and acting against its last known mission. When the link returns, it resyncs telemetry and accepts new orders.
Graceful degradation, not graceful failure.
Cloud-tethered systems treat network loss as an exception. Titan Core OS treats it as an operating mode. There is no degraded experience when comms drop — the machine is doing the same job, on the same hardware, with the same models. The only thing that changes is whether telemetry is reaching the operator in real time. When the link returns, Core replays the buffered state to Titan Command Center and resumes connected operation.
Open SDK.
Closed safety kernel.
Titan Core OS exposes SDK surfaces for perception and control plugins, while the orchestrator, safety state machine, OTA agent, and Core Command Link remain Titan-owned. The line is deliberate: integrators can extend behavior without weakening deterministic control.
Titan Mission Orchestrator
Outer-loop state machine for CONNECTED, DISCONNECTED, DEGRADED, and FAULT modes with BehaviorTree.CPP composition.
Form-Factor Adaptation Layer
Uniform vehicle interface with Core-W steering, Core-A attitude and position control, and Core-L MPC + whole-body control.
Core Command Link
Titan-native binary protocol over mTLS for prioritized intent, remote override, buffered replay, and VDA 5050 translation.
Lifecycle & OTA Agent
Signed manifests, atomic A/B swaps, health-check rollback, and staged jobs for kernel images, ROS packages, configs, and models.
ROS 2 substrate.
Titan-owned runtime.
Titan Core OS uses ROS 2 Jazzy as the driver and message substrate, with rmw_zenoh as the default RMW and Cyclone DDS available for legacy compatibility. Peripheral MCUs connect through micro-ROS over XRCE-DDS or Zenoh-pico.
The substrate stays open enough for OEM integrators and defense programs. The runtime contracts stay strict enough to bound mode transitions, actuator authority, plugin behavior, and OTA rollback.
HAL drivers swap real sensors and actuators for sim drivers inside Titan Matrix, so the same runtime can run on hardware and in CI without recompiling the autonomy stack.
On-Device Inference
Perception, planning, control, watchdogs, and fallback navigation run locally on Jetson Thor, Orin, or x86 + RTX dev targets.
No Cloud Dependency
The runtime keeps full autonomous capability through link loss, degraded networks, and comms-denied missions.
Deterministic Latency
TMO, FFAL, and controller loops are built around bounded scheduling and p99.99 decision latency below 10 ms.
Power Efficiency
TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, and optional Hailo companion inference keep perception throughput inside embedded power envelopes.
One runtime.
Three specializations.
Titan Core OS ships in three form-factor builds. The shared layers — perception, planning, autonomy fallback, security — are identical. Only the actuation and mobility-specific motion primitives change.
Titan 0000
Greenfield rate-loop and steering controller with Nav2 + MPPI planning for off-road, yard, closed-site, and defense mobility.
Titan 88
Titan attitude and position controller with PX4 low-level flight firmware over uXRCE-DDS and wind-aware FFAL models.
Titan 1111
OCS2-based convex MPC and whole-body-control fork with Titan terrain perception and gait selection above the controller.
Defense-grade is
the default build.
The v1 runtime assumes regulated fleets, contested networks, and named human authority over every actuator command. Security and audit are not add-ons; they are part of boot, update, and control.
TPM-backed identity
Device certificates live behind TPM 2.0, are managed by Titan Command Center PKI, and support Titan-issued or customer-owned roots.
Signed plugin boundary
Production loads only Titan-signed or customer-signed plugins. Unsigned modules run only in dev mode with sandbox warnings.
Native evidence trail
MCAP recordings, crash dumps, OpenTelemetry traces, and actuator attribution ship to Command when the link returns.
Latency kills.
Literally.
At 60 km/h, a 100ms cloud round-trip means 1.7 meters of blind driving. At 120 km/h, it's 3.3 meters. In defense scenarios with adversarial jamming, the cloud doesn't exist at all.
Titan Core OS's on-device inference is a structural advantage in both reliability and security. It isn't a technical preference — it's an architectural requirement for any system where latency variance can cause harm.
Core guarantees bounded, deterministic latency under all conditions — full connectivity, degraded connectivity, or zero connectivity. The same sub-10ms performance whether you're on a fiber-connected highway or in a comms-denied environment.
When the link returns,
Core catches Command up.
Titan Core OS buffers telemetry, decisions, sensor highlights, and mission state during disconnected operation. The moment a link is re-established with Titan Command Center, Core replays the buffer at high-priority — operators see the gap close, edge cases get flagged for review, and any new orders take effect immediately.
Every disconnected mission is also a training-data event. Buffered edge cases feed the data flywheel — the fleet learns from the moments when the network wasn't watching.
Tested in worlds
that don't exist.
Titan Core OS runs continuously inside procedurally generated worlds — physics-accurate scenes from game engines, and unrealistic environments from video generation models. We deliberately corrupt sensors, fail actuators, and break physics. The OS endures, or we fix it. Then we do it again.
Physics-accurate. Fully controllable.
Procedurally generated terrain, weather, traffic, lighting, and sensor noise. Every variable is dialable — the right tool for systematic stress tests and exhaustive edge-case enumeration.
Surreal. Novel. Unhinted-at by training.
Generative video models produce scenes our engineers wouldn't think to script — broken physics, unfamiliar objects, impossible lighting. Core has to make sense of worlds it has never seen and would never see in reality.
Generate
Game engines and video models continuously spawn new worlds — physics-accurate or deliberately surreal.
Run
Titan Core OS boots inside the world and runs the full autonomy stack — perceive, plan, act, recover.
Observe
Decisions, latencies, recoveries, and crashes are logged. Did the OS endure, fail safe, or fail loud?
Harden
Failures feed model training and runtime fixes. Validated changes ship via OTA. Loop repeats.
Failure modes we deliberately inject
The runtime should survive reality. Reality doesn't ask permission, so neither do we.
The pact: when Core can't endure, it must fail safe — degrade gracefully, hand back control, return home, or shut down without harm. Crashing isn't a failure mode we accept. Every crash in simulation is a runtime fix we ship before any robot encounters it in the field.