Three minds.
One ship.
Zero blind spots.
Cerberus simulates layered AI architectures for autonomous spacecraft. Two near-sentient systems make the hard calls. One primitive failsafe catches what they miss. Design it. Break it. Watch it recover.
Strategic Intelligence
Plans trajectories, allocates resources, navigates the unknown. The mind that charts the course through deep space.
Tactical Awareness
Monitors every system in real time. Detects anomalies before they cascade. The instinct that keeps the ship alive.
The Last Line
No learning. No creativity. Just deterministic rules that fire when everything else fails. Simple. Reliable. Unbreakable.
Design your architecture. Then try to kill it.
Orbital Docking
Two spacecraft approaching at relative velocity. The Mission AI computes approach vectors. The Operations AI monitors closing speed. The failsafe holds a hard abort threshold. Inject a sensor blackout and watch the handoff.
Debris Avoidance
Spacecraft in transit through an uncharted debris field. Layer 1 computes evasion maneuvers. Layer 2 validates safe corridors. Layer 3 holds emergency perpendicular thrust. Can the layers dodge every threat?
Cascading Failure Coming Soon
Radiation spike corrupts Layer 1. Layer 2 takes over. Then a second spike. Now it's just the primitive failsafe flying a spacecraft through an asteroid field. How good is your architecture?
still needs a dumb backup
that never fails.
Real aerospace engineering agrees. NASA's Run-Time Assurance. The Simplex architecture. ESA's onboard fault management. They all converge on the same insight: intelligence is powerful but fragile. Determinism is limited but unbreakable.
Cerberus doesn't pick a side. It gives you all three layers and lets you find the balance. When your sentient AI makes a brilliant move, you see it. When it fails catastrophically and the failsafe saves the mission, you see that too.
The future of space autonomy isn't one perfect AI. It's layers of imperfect ones, designed to catch each other.