How it works

Position comes from the network itself.

Each machine measures its distance to the machines around it. From those distances, each machine’s position is pinned down to within about ten centimeters. No satellites, no pre-built maps. This is MIM, the Motion Intelligence Model.

±10 CM WITH GPS BLOCKED · DISTANCES UP TO 1,800 M, NO LINE OF SIGHT NEEDED

A single autonomous vehicle alone in an empty yard, with nothing around it to reference.

01 · ALONE

Alone, a machine only guesses.

GPS drifts by meters. Indoors, underground, or jammed, it has nothing at all.

~8 M OF DOUBTU.S. DOT · SIXTH AVENUE

Five machines of mixed types spread across a yard, each measuring its distance to the others.

02 · MEASURING DISTANCE

Every machine is a reference point.

Each machine times a radio pulse to its neighbors and gets a distance. Every pair is measured. Five machines pin down each other’s positions.

5 MACHINES · 10 DISTANCESEVERY PAIR MEASURED

A vehicle on a street between tall buildings, which bounce the satellite signal down the street.

03 · ACCURATE TO 10 CM

Accurate to within 10 cm.

On Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, raw GPS was wrong by eight meters. Quorium got it to within ten centimeters. Recorded for the U.S. DOT.

GPS OFF BY 8 M · CORRECTED TO 10 CMU.S. DOT · SIXTH AVENUE

A convoy of three vehicles following each other through heavy dust.

04 · GPS BLOCKED

There is no satellite to jam.

Kill GPS entirely. With satellites blocked and heavy dust in the air, vehicles navigated to within ten centimeters, by their own estimate, in U.S. Army trials. Under active radio jamming, its convoys lost performance gradually instead of failing.

±10 CM, GPS BLOCKEDU.S. ARMY

The geometry

Three distances.

Tap a neighbor. Watch a lost drone find itself.

Each machine measures how far it is from the others, up to 1,800 meters away, even with no line of sight between them. No satellite is involved.

  1. 00No GPS. It could be anywhere.
  2. 01One distance. It is somewhere on a circle.
  3. 02Two distances. The circles cross at two points.
  4. 03Three distances. Only one point fits all three. That point is where the machine is.
  5. +Every machine does this with every neighbor. DARPA ran ~100-vehicle formations this way.

Interactive

Kill the GPS.

Two fleets. One of them keeps its place.

GPS onlyGPS: LIVE
On route
QuoriumACCURATE
±10 cmLIVE

Both fleets are on GPS. Jam it and watch.

In plain terms

Three ideas, no math.

Each machine is a landmark for the others.

GPS asks satellites where you are. MIM asks the machines around you, up to 1,800 meters away, even with no line of sight. With higher-grade sensors on board, the top three auto manufacturers used it as their reference measurement, accurate to ±2 cm over thousands of miles of public roads, to grade their own driver-assist sensors and software.

TOP THREE AUTO MANUFACTURERS
The map builds itself.

There is nothing to survey. Put MIM on the machines you already own and they find each other and set up on their own.

It runs on the machine itself.

No GPU, no cloud, no connectivity requirement. Collision checks 200 times a second on ordinary off-the-shelf processors. That is why it can go on every machine, not just the flagship one.

EVERY DEPLOYMENT

Watch it run on your machines.

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