A new kind of AI
PRIMAE RIDE POWERPLANT
is built on three
technology pillars:
#1 AUTONOMIC NEURAL NETWORK – ANN
Our AI tech is inspired by the human Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which governs our robotic powerplant.
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Just as the ANS sustains life in the human body, the ANN is a low-level, embedded, physical AI controlling sensors and actuators, designed to perform vital functions of high level systems:
POWER SOURCE
MANAGEMENT
Like in the biological world, harvesting, storing, and converting energy for mechanical power, heat, and electricity with maximum efficiency is the most basic function. In the artificial body, it controls fuel, engine, batteries and electrical motors.
PROPULSION AND LOCOMOTION CONTROL
This function provides Motility, i.e., the ability of an organism to move independently under its own power (at land, sea and air).
STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
AND SELF-PRESERVATION
This function monitor “health” of the system, maintain “homeostasis” conditions to preserve human life on board and outside, the artificial body itself and its mission.
#2 DETONATION
Detonation is the third most powerful reaction known to science, after fusion and nuclear energy. It is also the most efficient way to convert fuel into mechanical power—a breakthrough for engines, which remain and will continue to be essential for transportation and energy systems worldwide.
For decades, scientists and engineers attempted to build a practical detonation engine. Their efforts remained unsuccessful for two main reasons:
CONTROL
Detonation is a highly nonlinear physical phenomenon, impossible to manage with conventional algorithms
CONTAINMENT
Detonation generates extreme pressures and temperatures, which are extremely difficult to sustain and convert into usable work inside an engine.
A new engine architecture
At PRIMAE, we solved the first challenge by applying neural networks and machine learning, specifically trained to control the detonation process through our unique plasma ignition system.
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We also addressed the second challenge by developing a new engine architecture, capable of handling ultra-high-energy gases and efficiently extracting power through multi-stage conversion devices.
#3 PLASMA
Plasma is the fourth state of matter, high-energy gas where electrons (negative) and ions (positive) separate at extreme temperatures. Hotter than the surface of the Sun.
The ANN manages
detonation in two steps:
NON-THERMAL HIGH-FREQUENCY
PLASMA
Applied to the fuel/air mixture, creating free radicals, ions, and excited molecules to manipulate chemical reactivity.
ULTRA- HIGH THERMAL PLASMA
Delivers the critical energy for near-instant detonation.
Precise control of these two variables ensures the detonation process is efficient, stable, and safe, thereby preventing engine destruction.
ANN intelligent control of plasma ignition also allows the detonation engine to be a green flex fuel.
While pure hydrogen is easy to detonate due to its low critical energy, other clean, bio, or synthetic fuels, such as methane, methanol, and ethanol, require higher and increasing ignition energy to detonate.