KyperX AI / Technology / Intelligent physical systems
Research — concept and requirements definition
Modular robotics and intelligent physical systems.
Reuse, as an architecture problem.
Most machines are designed as one-offs: a new structure and a new set of electronics for every build. KyperX has investigated an architecture where structural and electronic functions are reused across different machine designs, joined by one connection that carries mounting, power and data together.
Architecture
The interface is the organising problem.
Travel from the whole system into the connection that holds it together, and then into what that connection has to satisfy.
Level 01 · System
One connected system, six responsibilities.
A modular intelligent system connects physical structure, power, sensing, computation, communication and actuation through a common interface.
Level 02 · Interface
One interface. Four core functions.
The interface brings mechanical attachment, structural participation, power and data into one system boundary. A backplane is an optional architectural layer.
Level 03 · Requirements
Three requirements define the interface.
Whatever the final implementation, the interface must mount securely, supply power and exchange data. Geometry, footprint, connection standard, bandwidth and retention remain engineering parameters to be defined.
Level 01 · System
One connected system, six responsibilities.
A modular intelligent system connects physical structure, power, sensing, computation, communication and actuation through a common interface.
Level 02 · Interface
One interface. Four core functions.
The interface brings mechanical attachment, structural participation, power and data into one system boundary. A backplane is an optional architectural layer.
Level 03 · Requirements
Three requirements define the interface.
Whatever the final implementation, the interface must mount securely, supply power and exchange data. Geometry, footprint, connection standard, bandwidth and retention remain engineering parameters to be defined.
Module roles
Common architecture, interchangeable roles.
Select a module category to see where that function participates. The structure does not change — that is the concept.
Core modules
Computing. Participates at compute and communication, reaching the system through the common interface.
Input and sensor modules
External input and measured conditions. Participate at input and sensing.
Output and actuator modules
Non-mechanical output and physical action. Participate at outputs and actuation; an actuator also imposes load on the structural framework.
Communication modules
Information exchange between parts of the system, and in the shared-computing variant between devices.
The engineering problem
How can structure, power, data and function share one architecture?
Four ideas from the concept work, each of which changes what the machine can be.
Modules that carry load
A functional module is intended to contribute to the machine’s structure as well as its electronics. That crosses the usual boundary between a frame and the boards mounted inside it.
One connection, three domains
Mechanical attachment, electrical power and data exchange are treated as a single connection brief rather than three separate problems. The interface becomes the organising subject.
Variable structure, reusable function
The framework can be designed and printed per application while the electronic modules keep a common mounting relationship. Design freedom sits in the structure; repeatability sits in the interface.
Six functional categories
Core, input, sensor, output, actuator and communication. Enough to compose a complete system, organised as sensing and input, through processing and communication, to output and action.
These are recorded design intentions from the concept work. Compatibility is an objective, not a demonstrated result — no interface has been specified, built or tested.
Maturity
What this page does not claim.
No prototype, pilot or deployment is established. There is no completed interface standard, no validated mechanical or electrical performance, no demonstrated module interchangeability and no commercial availability. The architecture above is a way of explaining recorded requirements, not evidence of built hardware.
To go deeper than Level 3 would require approved interface geometry, electrical ratings and a data protocol. None exists in the project record, so the diagram stops where the evidence stops.
Research or development collaboration?
This is the stage at which a research partner or programme can most usefully be involved.